Subject: [Tweeters] Woodland Bottoms
Date: Feb 23 18:27:19 2014
From: Russ Koppendrayer - russkope at gmail.com


Hi Tweeters,

I delayed my planned trip to the NE part of the state until tomorrow and
spent 4 hours in the Woodland Bottoms today (2/23/14). A male WOOD DUCK and
a flyby MERLIN were both FOY in Cowlitz County. An early OSPREY was just
north of the flushing channel and a GREAT HORNED OWL is on a nest a couple
houses south of the flushing channel. GREAT EGRET numbers seem high for
this time of year (29 today) and AMERICAN ROBINS were everywhere in flocks
large and small totaling a couple thousand. 40 GREAT BLUE HERONS were
standing on or near the nests at the heronry on Kuhnis Rd. In an open field
just north of the heronry was a large gull flock that contained a GLAUCOUS
GULL in with the hundreds of MEW GULLS and a few GLAUCOUS-WINGED & WESTERN
GULLS.

A winter long shortage of wintering sparrows in the bottoms continues and
we haven't found any loons here in the Lewis or Columbia except for a
couple reports of Common Loon a few weeks ago.

Hopefully the east side of the Cascades will be my spot tomorrow.

Russ Koppendrayer
Longview, WA
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