This report was mailed for Scott Murray by http://birdnotes.net



Date: December 18, 2005

Location: Ridgefield NWR River S Unit, Clark County, Washington





This is my count list for the Northern section of Bachelor Island

unit of the Ridgefield NWR



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 338

Cackling Goose 1674

Tundra Swan 71

Gadwall 4

Mallard 12

Northern Shoveler 6

Northern Pintail 127

Green-Winged Teal 31

Common Merganser 1

Pied-billed Grebe 2

Double-crested Cormorant 4

Great Blue Heron 11

Great Egret 3

White-tailed Kite 1

Bald Eagle 3

Northern Harrier 13

Red-tailed Hawk 12

Rough-legged Hawk 2

Eurasian Kestrel 4

American Coot 47

Sandhill Crane 191

Killdeer 2

Common Snipe 3

Mourning Dove 2

Barn Owl 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Downy Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 9

Pileated Woodpecker 1

Hutton's Vireo 1 [1]

Western Scrub-Jay 2

American Crow 3

Black-capped Chickadee 12

Brown Creeper 2

Golden-crowned Kinglet 7

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6

European Starling 88

American Pipit 10

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Spotted Towhee 2

Savannah Sparrow 6

Fox Sparrow 2

Song Sparrow 31

Lincoln's Sparrow 1

Golden-crowned Sparrow 72

Dark-eyed Junco 3

Red-winged Blackbird 12

Western Meadowlark 54

Brewer's Blackbird 4

House Finch 3

American Goldfinch 5



Footnotes:



[1] 1 together with a mixed group on Chickadees,Kinglets and brown

creepers



Total number of species seen: 51