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Date: April 21, 2013

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 90%

Precipitation: drizzle



from 11:05AM to 5:05PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Greater White-fronted Goose 60 [1]

Canada Goose 50 [2]

Cackling Goose 300 [3]

Wood Duck 5

Gadwall 100

Eurasian Wigeon 1 [4]

American Wigeon 45

Mallard 100

Blue-winged Teal 1 [5]

Cinnamon Teal 30

Northern Shoveler 300

Northern Pintail 140

Green-Winged Teal 110

Ring-necked Duck 65

Lesser Scaup 50

Bufflehead 70

Hooded Merganser 1 [6]

Ruddy Duck 100

Pied-billed Grebe 33

Eared Grebe 1 [7]

American Bittern 4

Great Blue Heron 16

Great Egret 4

Osprey 2

Bald Eagle 2 [8]

Northern Harrier 1

Red-tailed Hawk 2

Virginia Rail 5

American Coot 400

Killdeer 2

Greater Yellowlegs 8

Least Sandpiper 1

Dunlin 10

Long-billed Dowitcher 20

Common Snipe 5

Mourning Dove 2

Great Horned Owl 1 [9]

Rufous Hummingbird 1

Red-breasted Sapsucker 2 [10]

Northern Flicker 5

Steller's Jay 3

Western Scrub-Jay 5

American Crow 1

Tree Swallow 350

Violet-green Swallow 500

Cliff Swallow 100

Barn Swallow 200

Black-capped Chickadee 6

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2

Bushtit 6

Red-breasted Nuthatch 2

White-breasted Nuthatch 3

Brown Creeper 1

Bewick's Wren 8

Marsh Wren 26

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2

American Robin 10

European Starling 20

Orange-crowned Warbler 8

Yellow-rumped Warbler 100

Townsend's Warbler 2

Common Yellowthroat 25

Spotted Towhee 16

Savannah Sparrow 10

Song Sparrow 45

Lincoln's Sparrow 1 [11]

Golden-crowned Sparrow 15

Dark-eyed Junco 1

Red-winged Blackbird 100

Yellow-headed Blackbird 3

Purple Finch 3

House Finch 2

Pine Siskin 5

American Goldfinch 10



Footnotes:



[1] Flying South over River S Unit

[2] adults & 15 goslings

[3] "Taverner's", most seen heading north

[4] male, Carty Lake

[5] male, Ruddy Lake

[6] female, Rest Lake

[7] breeding-plummaged adult, Rest Lake

[8] adult & juvenile

[9] adult heard West of observation blind parking area.

[10] active pair on Carty Unit

[11] North end of Carty Lake



Total number of species seen: 74