Trumpeter Swans can usually be heard at Carty Lake, in the north unit of
Ridgefield NWR where walk-in access is allowed during daylight hours. Today
there were at least 45 Tree Swallows on the River S loop, by far the largest
flock I've seen this winter. No Barn Swallows seen but not all got a good
look either.

Yesterday Bob Flores and I tried to track down a reported Black-billed
Magpie in the Hazel Dell area of Vancouver. No luck with the magpie but we
did locate a wintering Townsend's Warbler near NE 10th Avenue and 111th St.

Randy Hill
Ridgefield

-----Original Message-----
From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
Hobbs
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 6:16 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Lewis. Cowlitz, and Clark Counties over the weekend

Tweets - I spent Saturday and Sunday down in Lewis, Cowlitz, and Clark
counties, and had some good birds.

Saturday at sunrise, I had two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS at a feeder along
Goodrich Rd., in north Lewis County. They were at the house just before the

90 first degree bend in the road.

Then I went up the short side road to the north off Goodrich (Wagner Rd.),
and had a great mixed flock of gulls - Glaucous-winged, Ring-billed, Mew, at

least 2 THAYER'S GULL, and 2 (TWO) juvenile GLAUCOUS GULLS.

Down at Willow Grove at the east end of Longview, Cowlitz Co., I had three
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS together along the north side road. I also found an

ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD at the west end.

At Woodland Bottoms, there was a pair of TRUMPETER SWANS in with a couple of

hundred Tundra Swans. In the Columbia, I had two female WHITE-WINGED
SCOTERS. Sunday, also off Woodland Bottoms, I had a RED-THROATED LOON. Oh,

and while I was looking at the scoters, I noticed a MERLIN in a tree.

Sunday, in Clark County, I hit the Waterfront Renaissance Trail area east of

I-5, and had a RED-THROATED LOON. At Vancouver Lake, where access was
difficult because of a marathon, I found 2-3 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS with
Common Mergansers in the lake near the outlet to the flushing channel. On
my way out, on Old Lower River Rd., I found a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in my
3rd county of the weekend.

At Ridgefield, on the auto route, I was surprised to see 3 CINNAMON TEAL at
the first pond on the left (stop #2) and even more surprised when I noticed
that the bird next to them was a BLUE-WINGED TEAL. I tried, and failed, to
find any Trumpeter Swans in with the hundreds of Tundras.

It's funny that I hit most of the same areas as Russ Koppendrayer, both of
us on Saturday, and we had such different highlights. I failed to find most

of his good birds.

== Michael Hobbs
== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com
== www.marymoor.org
== www.marymoor.org/birding.htm

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