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Date: January 17, 2016

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Prevailing wind speed: < 1 km/h

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 100%

Precipitation: showers/intermittent rain



from 11:19AM to 5:00PM. River Otters seen on Carty Lake



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 50

Cackling Goose 300

Trumpeter Swan 39 [1]

Tundra Swan 689

Gadwall 116

American Wigeon 31

Mallard 200

Northern Shoveler 239

Northern Pintail 137

Green-Winged Teal 100

Ring-necked Duck 23

Lesser Scaup 11

Bufflehead 66

Hooded Merganser 15

Common Merganser 4

Ruddy Duck 27

Pied-billed Grebe 4

Great Blue Heron 14

Great Egret 5

Bald Eagle 7 [2]

Northern Harrier 2

Red-tailed Hawk 18

American Kestrel 3

Peregrine Falcon 1 [3]

American Coot 640

Sandhill Crane 150

Mourning Dove 15

Great Horned Owl 2 [4]

Anna's Hummingbird 2

Belted Kingfisher 1

Hairy Woodpecker 3

Northern Flicker 5

Black Phoebe 1

Hutton's Vireo 2

Steller's Jay 6

Western Scrub-Jay 12

Black-capped Chickadee 12

Bushtit 23

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Brown Creeper 1

Bewick's Wren 3

Winter Wren 3

Marsh Wren 5

Golden-crowned Kinglet 30

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5

American Robin 30

Varied Thrush 6

European Starling 50

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Spotted Towhee 20

Savannah Sparrow 2

Fox Sparrow 6

Song Sparrow 23

Golden-crowned Sparrow 2

Dark-eyed Junco 4

Red-winged Blackbird 10

Brewer's Blackbird 30

House Finch 2



Footnotes:



[1] Carty Unit

[2] adults, 4th year bird, juvenile

[3] Canvasback Lake, near marker #9

[4] trees on North side of Ruddy Lake, marker #6



Total number of species seen: 58