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Date: December 14, 2014

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: NE

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

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 20%

Precipitation: none



from 11:02AM to 4:39PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Greater White-fronted Goose 10 [1]

Canada Goose 50

Cackling Goose 700 [2]

Trumpeter Swan 1 [3]

Tundra Swan 600

Gadwall 25

Eurasian Wigeon 1 [4]

American Wigeon 300

Mallard 400

Northern Shoveler 380

Northern Pintail 650

Green-Winged Teal 250

Ring-necked Duck 90

Lesser Scaup 5

Bufflehead 60

Hooded Merganser 10

Ruddy Duck 45

Pied-billed Grebe 9

Double-crested Cormorant 2

Great Blue Heron 14

Great Egret 6

Bald Eagle 6 [5]

Northern Harrier 4

Red-tailed Hawk 4

American Coot 430

Sandhill Crane 40

Killdeer 4

Common Snipe 20

Great Horned Owl 1 [6]

Anna's Hummingbird 1

Belted Kingfisher 1

Downy Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 5

Steller's Jay 1

Western Scrub-Jay 7

Black-capped Chickadee 12

Bushtit 4

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Brown Creeper 3

Bewick's Wren 1

Winter Wren 7

Golden-crowned Kinglet 15

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2

American Robin 5

Varied Thrush 3

European Starling 50

Spotted Towhee 10

Fox Sparrow 1

Song Sparrow 20

Golden-crowned Sparrow 15

Dark-eyed Junco 1



Footnotes:



[1] Carty Unit

[2] 100 Taverner's

[3] Carty Unit

[4] drake, Canvasback Lake

[5] adults, juvenile, 2nd year, 3rd year

[6] Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 52