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Date: May 31, 2015

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: Variable

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

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 70%

Precipitation: none



from 11:07AM to 4:41PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 6 [1]

Wood Duck 12

Gadwall 102

Mallard 70

Blue-winged Teal 6 [2]

Cinnamon Teal 54 [3]

Northern Shoveler 1

Northern Pintail 1

Green-Winged Teal 1

Bufflehead 1

Pied-billed Grebe 7

American White Pelican 44 [4]

American Bittern 3

Great Blue Heron 16 [5]

Great Egret 12

Turkey Vulture 5

Osprey 3

Bald Eagle 9 [6]

Red-tailed Hawk 4

Virginia Rail 4

Sora 2

Sandhill Crane 1 [7]

Killdeer 1

Greater Yellowlegs 1

Common Snipe 7

Eurasian Collared-Dove 1

Anna's Hummingbird 1

Belted Kingfisher 2 [8]

Red-breasted Sapsucker 2 [9]

Downy Woodpecker 1

Hairy Woodpecker 2 [10]

Northern Flicker 2

Pileated Woodpecker 1 [11]

Olive-sided Flycatcher 1

Western Wood-Pewee 9

Willow Flycatcher 1

Steller's Jay 1

Western Scrub-Jay 5

American Crow 1

Purple Martin 1

Tree Swallow 70

Violet-green Swallow 5

Cliff Swallow 60

Barn Swallow 30

Black-capped Chickadee 4

Bushtit 2

Brown Creeper 4

Bewick's Wren 5

House Wren 10

Winter Wren 3

Marsh Wren 16

Swainson's Thrush 3

American Robin 10

European Starling 100

Cedar Waxwing 15

Orange-crowned Warbler 3

Yellow Warbler 2

Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 [12]

Common Yellowthroat 50 [13]

Wilson's Warbler 5

Western Tanager 1

Spotted Towhee 18

Savannah Sparrow 5

Song Sparrow 70

Black-headed Grosbeak 10

Red-winged Blackbird 60

Brown-headed Cowbird 10

Purple Finch 3

American Goldfinch 5



Footnotes:



[1] Long Lake

[2] River S Unit

[3] adults & 5 ducklings, River S Unit

[4] over Carty Unit

[5] 3 on Carty Unit

[6] adults, 4th year bird, juvenile pair, all but

one adult seen on Carty Unit

[7] Kiwa Trail

[8] singles on both units

[9] Carty Unit

[10] Carty Unit

[11] Carty Unit, near North boundary

[12] Carty Unit

[13] half seen on Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 69