Subject: [Tweeters] Raptor Survey: Chinook Valley - 1/9/2005
Date: Jan 9 12:28:19 2005
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com
Chinook Valley and Cape D - 1.75hrs, 40mi
Red-tailed Hawk numbers were surprisingly low most (and
no harriers). 7 of the 9 eagles were adults and most
were paired up.
Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
Trumpeter Swan 6 [1]
White-tailed Kite 3 [2]
Bald Eagle 9
Red-tailed Hawk 4
American Kestrel 1
Red-breasted Sapsucker 1 [3]
Footnotes:
[1] 2 flying over Cape D; 4 on Black Lake
[2] 2 near gun club; 1 Chinook Dike Rd
[3] near Ft Columbia
Total number of species seen: 6
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Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com
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