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Date: April 15, 2012

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 70%

Precipitation: none



from 11:18AM to 4:19PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Greater White-fronted Goose 110 [1]

Canada Goose 50

Cackling Goose 400

Wood Duck 4

Gadwall 110

American Wigeon 4

Mallard 50

Cinnamon Teal 15

Northern Shoveler 160

Green-Winged Teal 22

Canvasback 2 [2]

Redhead 2 [3]

Ring-necked Duck 40

Lesser Scaup 30

Surf Scoter 1 [4]

Bufflehead 50

Hooded Merganser 1

Ruddy Duck 35

Pied-billed Grebe 15

Horned Grebe 1 [5]

Double-crested Cormorant 2

Great Blue Heron 10

Great Egret 1

Turkey Vulture 2

Osprey 2

Bald Eagle 14 [6]

Northern Harrier 1

Red-tailed Hawk 4

American Kestrel 1

Peregrine Falcon 1 [7]

Virginia Rail 1

American Coot 700

Sandhill Crane 6

Killdeer 3

Greater Yellowlegs 5

Lesser Yellowlegs 1

Long-billed Dowitcher 20

Common Snipe 20 [8]

Mourning Dove 1

Belted Kingfisher 2

Downy Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 6

Hutton's Vireo 1

Steller's Jay 2

Western Scrub-Jay 7

Purple Martin 1

Tree Swallow 40

Violet-green Swallow 5

Cliff Swallow 5

Black-capped Chickadee 14

Bushtit 4

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Brown Creeper 2

Bewick's Wren 15

Winter Wren 3

Marsh Wren 15

Golden-crowned Kinglet 10

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12

Hermit Thrush 2

American Robin 7

European Starling 20

Orange-crowned Warbler 4

Yellow-rumped Warbler 5

Common Yellowthroat 10

Spotted Towhee 12

Savannah Sparrow 2

Song Sparrow 40

White-crowned Sparrow 2

Golden-crowned Sparrow 2

Dark-eyed Junco 2

Red-winged Blackbird 40

Yellow-headed Blackbird 4

Purple Finch 2



Footnotes:



[1] Carty Unit, flying south

[2] adult pair, Rest Lake

[3] adult pair, Rest Lake

[4] female, South Quigley Lake

[5] adult, Rest Lake

[6] 4 adults, 8 juveniles, eaglet pair

[7] Rest Lake

[8] seen in seasonal wetland South of Hunter's Gate



Total number of species seen: 74