Birded Shillapoo Wildlife Area and Vancouver Lake late this a.m. Highlights
included clouds of Cackling Geese traveling up and down the WA side of the
Columbia, a RED-NECKED GREBE, six sparrow species, Long-billed Dowitchers
and a Merlin. Most of the duck
numbers came from the water treatment plant on Framboise Rd. at the entrance
of Shillapoo.

Cackling Goose 800
Canada Goose 200
Cackling/Canada Goose 4000 (very conservative estimate)
American Wigeon 9
Mallard 14
Northern Shoveler 12
Green-winged Teal 1
Ring-necked Duck 150
Lesser Scaup 2
Ruddy Duck 5
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Horned Grebe 17
RED-NECKED GREBE 1 (seen on Vancouver Lake from the Shillapoo launch area
on the south end of the lake)
Western Grebe 36
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron X
Great Egret 9
Northern Harrier 2
Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Kestrel 6
Merlin 1
American Coot 18
Sandhill Crane 5
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Killdeer X
Long-billed Dowitcher 9
Ring-billed Gull 22
Herring Gull 1
Mourning Dove X
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker X
Western Scrub-Jay X
American Crow X
Barn Swallow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Bewick's Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 1
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Spotted Towhee 3
Fox Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 19
Lincoln's Sparrow 4
White-crowned Sparrow 6
Golden-crowned Sparrow 11
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Western Meadowlark 37
Brewer's Blackbird X
House Finch X
American Goldfinch X

-Mike Clarke
Vancouver, WA
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