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Date: February 26, 2012

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: NW

Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 50%

Precipitation: none



from 11:24AM to 4:22PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Greater White-fronted Goose 8 [1]

Canada Goose 200

Cackling Goose 800

Tundra Swan 430

Wood Duck 2

Gadwall 20

Eurasian Wigeon 2 [2]

American Wigeon 100

Mallard 100

Cinnamon Teal 5 [3]

Northern Shoveler 350

Northern Pintail 120

Green-Winged Teal 50

Ring-necked Duck 20

Lesser Scaup 20

Bufflehead 50

Hooded Merganser 7

Common Merganser 16

Ruddy Duck 55

Pied-billed Grebe 17

Double-crested Cormorant 1

Great Blue Heron 10

Great Egret 1

Bald Eagle 7 [4]

Northern Harrier 3

Red-tailed Hawk 6

American Kestrel 1

American Coot 850

Sandhill Crane 4

Greater Yellowlegs 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Red-breasted Sapsucker 1

Downy Woodpecker 2

Northern Flicker 1

Hutton's Vireo 2

Steller's Jay 7

Western Scrub-Jay 8

Common Raven 2

Tree Swallow 35 [5]

Black-capped Chickadee 16

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 3

Brown Creeper 6

Bewick's Wren 6

Winter Wren 8

Marsh Wren 8

Golden-crowned Kinglet 20

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 16

American Robin 20

Varied Thrush 5

European Starling 50

Yellow-rumped Warbler 2

Spotted Towhee 16

Fox Sparrow 3

Song Sparrow 30

Lincoln's Sparrow 2

Golden-crowned Sparrow 8

Dark-eyed Junco 2

Red-winged Blackbird 5

House Finch 2



Footnotes:



[1] Carty Unit

[2] male pair, Rest Lake

[3] Long Lake

[4] 5 adults, 2nd year bird, juvenile

[5] 30 over Carty Lake, 5 over Rest Lake



Total number of species seen: 61