Today (Saturday, April 24, 2010), Will Clemons and I birded the River S unit at Ridgefield NWR. ?It was a wonderful spring day, albeit cool (not above ~51 degrees). ?We had fabulous looks at about eight SORAS (we lost count!), right out in the open.? We had the following species (81!), including a Peregrine Falcon seen by Steve Halpern and Randy _____ (sorry, I don?t have his last name):
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Pied-billed Grebe


Double-crested Cormorant


American Bittern


Great Blue Heron


Turkey Vulture


GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE


Cackling Goose


Canada Goose


Wood Duck


Gadwall


American Wigeon


Mallard


BLUE-WINGED TEAL


Cinnamon Teal


Northern Shoveler


Northern Pintail


Green-winged Teal


COMMON TEAL


Ring-necked Duck


Lesser Scaup


Bufflehead


Ruddy Duck


Osprey


Bald Eagle


Northern Harrier


Red-tailed Hawk


American Kestrel


Peregrine Falcon


VIRGINIA RAIL


SORA


American Coot


Sandhill Crane


Greater Yellowlegs


Least Sandpiper


Wilson's Snipe


Mourning Dove


Great Horned Owl


Vaux's Swift


RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD


Belted Kingfisher


Red-breasted Sapsucker


Downy Woodpecker


Hairy Woodpecker


Northern Flicker


Pileated Woodpecker


CASSIN'S VIREO


Steller's Jay


Western Scrub-Jay


American Crow


Common Raven


Tree Swallow


Violet-green Swallow


Northern Rough-winged Swallow


Cliff Swallow


Barn Swallow


Black-capped Chickadee


Chestnut-backed Chickadee


Bushtit


Red-breasted Nuthatch


White-breasted Nuthatch


Brown Creeper


Bewick's Wren


HOUSE WREN


Winter Wren


Marsh Wren


HERMIT THRUSH


American Robin


European Starling


ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER


Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Black-throated Gray Warbler


Common Yellowthroat


Wilson's Warbler


Spotted Towhee


Savannah Sparrow


Song Sparrow


Golden-crowned Sparrow


Red-winged Blackbird


Yellow-headed Blackbird


House Finch


Pine Siskin
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Carol Ledford
Gresham, OR
uskestrel at yahoo.com
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