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Date: November 1, 2015

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: S

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

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 80%

Precipitation: showers/intermittent rain



from 11:11AM to 4:38PM. Beaver seen on Carty Unit on Boot Lake.

Several Columbian White-tailed Deer, including two-point buck seen

near Ruddy Lake.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 200

Cackling Goose 55

Gadwall 60

American Wigeon 217

Mallard 150

Cinnamon Teal 4 [1]

Northern Shoveler 163

Northern Pintail 347

Green-Winged Teal 95

Canvasback 2 [2]

Ring-necked Duck 147

Bufflehead 2

Hooded Merganser 6

Pied-billed Grebe 2

Double-crested Cormorant 1

Great Blue Heron 7

Great Egret 23 [3]

Osprey 1 [4]

Bald Eagle 4 [5]

Northern Harrier 2

Red-shouldered Hawk 1

Red-tailed Hawk 10

American Kestrel 1

Peregrine Falcon 1

American Coot 133

Sandhill Crane 48

Greater Yellowlegs 2

Long-billed Dowitcher 6

Common Snipe 4

Mourning Dove 1

Belted Kingfisher 2

Red-breasted Sapsucker 1

Downy Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 4

Steller's Jay 5

Western Scrub-Jay 7

American Crow 1

Black-capped Chickadee 10

Chestnut-backed Chickadee 2

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 1

Bewick's Wren 4

Winter Wren 6

Golden-crowned Kinglet 25

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7

American Robin 5

Varied Thrush 1

European Starling 50

American Pipit 1

Spotted Towhee 16

Savannah Sparrow 3

Fox Sparrow 3

Song Sparrow 14

White-throated Sparrow 3 [6]

White-crowned Sparrow 2

Golden-crowned Sparrow 3

Dark-eyed Junco 1

Red-winged Blackbird 50



Footnotes:



[1] Ruddy Lake

[2] South Big Lake

[3] 4 seen on Carty Unit

[4] Carty Unit

[5] adults & juvenile

[6] adults & juvenile, near plankhouse



Total number of species seen: 58