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Date: December 7, 2011

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%

Precipitation: haze or fog



from 11:05AM to 4:35PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 150 [1]

Cackling Goose 300

Trumpeter Swan 5 [2]

Tundra Swan 485

Wood Duck 5

Gadwall 120

American Wigeon 250

Mallard 300

Northern Shoveler 100

Northern Pintail 350

Green-Winged Teal 350

Ring-necked Duck 40

Lesser Scaup 2

Bufflehead 35

Hooded Merganser 26

Ruddy Duck 10

Pied-billed Grebe 6

Double-crested Cormorant 21

Great Blue Heron 18

Great Egret 30 [3]

Bald Eagle 4 [4]

Northern Harrier 6

Cooper's Hawk 1

Red-shouldered Hawk 1 [5]

Red-tailed Hawk 9 [6]

American Kestrel 2

Virginia Rail 5 [7]

Sora 1 [8]

American Coot 500

Sandhill Crane 150

Great Horned Owl 1 [9]

Belted Kingfisher 1

Downy Woodpecker 2

Northern Flicker 3

Steller's Jay 10

Western Scrub-Jay 12

Black-capped Chickadee 14

Bushtit 8

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 3

Brown Creeper 3

Bewick's Wren 5

Winter Wren 8

Golden-crowned Kinglet 25

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 20

American Robin 5

Varied Thrush 4

European Starling 20

Cedar Waxwing 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler 2

Spotted Towhee 22

Fox Sparrow 7

Song Sparrow 35

Golden-crowned Sparrow 50

Dark-eyed Junco 15

Red-winged Blackbird 10

Purple Finch 1



Footnotes:



[1] Dusky subspecies

[2] Carty Unit

[3] Carty Unit

[4] adults

[5] juvenile seen west of plank house

[6] dark-morph adult seen East of photo blind

[7] heard from photo blind

[8] heard from photo blind

[9] Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 57