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Date: September 7, 2014

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: NE

Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%

Precipitation: none



from 10:44AM to 4:00PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Wood Duck 25

Mallard 105

Cinnamon Teal 24

Ruddy Duck 1

Pied-billed Grebe 2

Great Blue Heron 13

Great Egret 7

Osprey 2

Red-shouldered Hawk 1 [1]

Red-tailed Hawk 6

American Kestrel 1

American Coot 18

Greater Yellowlegs 2

Solitary Sandpiper 1 [2]

Semipalmated Sandpiper 2

Western Sandpiper 5

Least Sandpiper 35

Baird's Sandpiper 1

Pectoral Sandpiper 5

Common Snipe 14

Belted Kingfisher 2

Northern Flicker 5

Pileated Woodpecker 2

Western Wood-Pewee 2

Steller's Jay 5

Western Scrub-Jay 9

American Crow 1

Common Raven 2 [3]

Barn Swallow 10

Black-capped Chickadee 14

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 4

Bushtit 20

Red-breasted Nuthatch 3

White-breasted Nuthatch 4

Brown Creeper 3

Bewick's Wren 7

Winter Wren 1

American Robin 5

European Starling 140

American Pipit 10 [4]

Cedar Waxwing 30

Common Yellowthroat 30

Western Tanager 1

Spotted Towhee 5

Savannah Sparrow 25

Song Sparrow 16

White-crowned Sparrow 2

Golden-crowned Sparrow 1 [5]

American Goldfinch 2



Footnotes:



[1] heard near Carty Unit parking area

[2] West side of Rest Lake

[3] Kiwa Trail

[4] seen with shorebirds at Rest Lake

[5] Kiwa Trail



Total number of species seen: 49