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Date: June 3, 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 11:28AM to 4:09PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 14 [1]

Wood Duck 7

Gadwall 50

American Wigeon 8

Mallard 100

Blue-winged Teal 12

Cinnamon Teal 30

Northern Shoveler 10

Ring-necked Duck 2

Lesser Scaup 3

Bufflehead 1

Ruddy Duck 18

Pied-billed Grebe 14

Horned Grebe 1 [2]

American Bittern 2

Great Blue Heron 10

Great Egret 5

Osprey 1

Bald Eagle 5 [3]

Red-tailed Hawk 2

American Kestrel 1

Virginia Rail 11

Sora 9

American Coot 50

Killdeer 3

Common Snipe 4

Mourning Dove 3

Vaux's Swift 1

Anna's Hummingbird 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Red-breasted Sapsucker 2

Northern Flicker 2

Western Wood-Pewee 9

Willow Flycatcher 2

Black Phoebe 1 [4]

Warbling Vireo 1

Steller's Jay 2

Western Scrub-Jay 4

Common Raven 1

Purple Martin 1

Tree Swallow 30

Violet-green Swallow 10

Cliff Swallow 15

Barn Swallow 25

Black-capped Chickadee 10

Bushtit 12

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 3

Bewick's Wren 10

House Wren 5

Marsh Wren 30

Swainson's Thrush 5

American Robin 16

European Starling 15

Cedar Waxwing 60

Orange-crowned Warbler 2

Yellow Warbler 2

Black-throated Gray Warbler 1

Common Yellowthroat 40

Wilson's Warbler 2

Western Tanager 3

Spotted Towhee 16

Savannah Sparrow 8

Song Sparrow 60

Black-headed Grosbeak 9

Lazuli Bunting 1 [5]

Red-winged Blackbird 50

Yellow-headed Blackbird 10

Brown-headed Cowbird 6

Purple Finch 4

House Finch 5

American Goldfinch 20



Footnotes:



[1] adults & 5 goslings

[2] breeding plummaged adult seen on Rest Lake

[3] adults, juvenile pair seen on nest on River S Unit

[4] Hunter's Gate

[5] male, Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 73