I checked the Washougal Sewage Lagoons from Highway 14 at
milepost 17.6 and the female LONG-TAILED DUCK was still on the pond
closest to the road. One SHORT-EARED OWL was working the fields at the
Steigerwald Lake NWR when I delivered some plants there for a habitat
restoration project. This bird would be visible from Highway 14 at
milepost 18.8, there is a wide pull-off just past the railroad overpass.
In the flock of about 500 CACKLING GEESE was a gorgeous leucistic
Cackling Goose with a body as white as a Snow Goose and a gray neck.
An e-mail from Glenn and Mary Ann Teague informed me that the
EMPEROR GOOSE in the Vancouver Lake Lowlands was seen at the south end of
Old Lower River Road on Sunday.
The MUTE SWAN at Steigerwald hasn't been seen since Oct. 24 and may have
left with a flock of Tundra Swans that were there at that time.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA