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From: geraldham at comcast.net
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Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:10:25 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: .........Ridgefield NWR


.............Mostly cloudy and cool with rain by 6:00 pm today at River-S Unit---Ridgefield N WR north of Vancouver Wash. 39 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE(.....with 2 smaller CANADA GEESE with them) in the east side of Rest Lake. Lots of SANDHILL CRANES heard and flying overhead with 10 cranes feeding near the road just south of the contact station. for the only closeup view of the cranes I saw. GREAT EGRETS and lots of GREAT BLUE HERONS around.
.............8 LONG=BILLED DOWITCHERS and 1 GREATER YELLOWLEG south end of Rest Lake, plus a small flock of unidentified small shorebirds flying overhead.Several CANVASBACKS reported, but not seen by me. Some COOTS and MALLARDS ( ...males starting to get their colors) about it for ducks right now. Canada Geese coming down from the north and should be more prevalent short. The HORNED OWL still around the area of the observation blind for Rest lake. Water still low there, but starting to fill up more with the refuge pumps going with water from the Columbia River.
.............3 River Otters on the small lake with all the dead trees to the left of road shortly after passing the entrance station.

..............Cheers.......Gerald Hamilton
Brush Prairie, Wash.
geraldham at comcast.net