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Date: January 5, 2014

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%

Precipitation: none



from 11:46AM to 4:16PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Greater White-fronted Goose 1 [1]

Canada Goose 300

Cackling Goose 60

Tundra Swan 400

Gadwall 80

American Wigeon 140

Mallard 200

Northern Shoveler 140

Northern Pintail 460

Green-Winged Teal 340

Canvasback 6 [2]

Ring-necked Duck 45

Bufflehead 40

Hooded Merganser 25

Common Merganser 2

Ruddy Duck 40

Pied-billed Grebe 6

Double-crested Cormorant 5

Great Blue Heron 25

Great Egret 5

Bald Eagle 2

Northern Harrier 4

Red-tailed Hawk 11 [3]

Rough-legged Hawk 1

American Kestrel 1

American Coot 400

Sandhill Crane 4

Great Horned Owl 1 [4]

Anna's Hummingbird 2

Belted Kingfisher 2

Steller's Jay 6

Western Scrub-Jay 11

Black-capped Chickadee 12

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 2

Bewick's Wren 1

Winter Wren 4

Marsh Wren 5

Golden-crowned Kinglet 10

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2

American Robin 1

Varied Thrush 11

European Starling 20

Spotted Towhee 12

Fox Sparrow 5

Song Sparrow 40

Golden-crowned Sparrow 2

Red-winged Blackbird 5

Brewer's Blackbird 5

House Finch 2



Footnotes:



[1] East of observation blind parking area

[2] 4 adults on Rest Lake, adult on Bull Lake, another seen on Carty

Unit

[3] dark-morph adult seen East of observation blind parking area

[4] heard along Oaks-to-Wetlands trail



Total number of species seen: 50