Subject: [Tweeters] Census Count: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge,
Date: Nov 24 16:36:11 2013
From: ErikKnight05 at gmail.com - ErikKnight05 at gmail.com


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Date: November 24, 2013

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%

Precipitation: none



from 11:23AM to 4:19PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 300 [1]

Cackling Goose 200 [2]

Trumpeter Swan 5 [3]

Tundra Swan 165

Wood Duck 2

Gadwall 50

American Wigeon 80

Mallard 200

Cinnamon Teal 19 [4]

Northern Shoveler 200

Northern Pintail 500

Green-Winged Teal 150

Ring-necked Duck 40

Bufflehead 10

Hooded Merganser 5

Ruddy Duck 5

Pied-billed Grebe 10

Double-crested Cormorant 5

Great Blue Heron 14

Great Egret 6

Bald Eagle 2 [5]

Northern Harrier 3

Red-tailed Hawk 5 [6]

American Kestrel 1

Virginia Rail 1

American Coot 500

Sandhill Crane 55

Long-billed Dowitcher 6

Common Snipe 10

Red-breasted Sapsucker 1

Downy Woodpecker 2

Steller's Jay 10

Western Scrub-Jay 13

Common Raven 1 [7]

Black-capped Chickadee 14

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 1

Bewick's Wren 5

Winter Wren 8

Marsh Wren 5

Golden-crowned Kinglet 20

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10

Varied Thrush 8

European Starling 5

Spotted Towhee 20

Fox Sparrow 5

Song Sparrow 35

White-crowned Sparrow 2

Golden-crowned Sparrow 55

Dark-eyed Junco 5

Red-winged Blackbird 5

House Finch



Footnotes:



[1] Dusky

[2] Taverner's

[3] one seen on Carty Unit, others seen on River S Unit

[4] SW corner of Rest Lake

[5] adult & juvenile

[6] intermediate-morph adult seen on River S Unit

[7] Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 53