Nice Gate!

No signs of anybody trying to go around it, either.

Very warm, spring-like day. Temperature at 10:00 was 58.5?.
A singing ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was near station 12, blooming
Evergreen Huckleberry, and a very few Salal blooms

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pied-billed Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Canada Goose 6
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 60
Mallard 50
Green-Winged Teal 2
Ring-necked Duck 4
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Anna's Hummingbird 1 [1]
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Hutton's Vireo 1
Steller's Jay 11
American Crow 16
Common Raven 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 13
Brown Creeper 2
Bewick's Wren 4
Winter Wren 8
Marsh Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 32
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
American Robin 2
European Starling 21
Townsend's Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 2
Fox Sparrow 9
Song Sparrow 11
Dark-eyed Junco 9
Red-winged Blackbird 11
House Finch 1
Red Crossbill 1
House Sparrow 2

Footnotes:

[1] singing male near station 12

Total number of species seen: 35

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

If you want to end war and stuff, you've got to sing loud
- Arlo Guthrie