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Date: May 1, 2016

Location: Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Clark County, Washington



Wind direction: E

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

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 0%

Precipitation: none



from 11:14AM to 4:50PM.



Birds seen (in taxonomic order):



Canada Goose 50 [1]

Wood Duck 5 [2]

Gadwall 102

American Wigeon 40

Mallard 54

Cinnamon Teal 20 [3]

Northern Shoveler 304

Northern Pintail 30

Green-Winged Teal 100

Redhead 2 [4]

Ring-necked Duck 90

Lesser Scaup 30

Bufflehead 30

Hooded Merganser 1 [5]

Ruddy Duck 33

Pied-billed Grebe 8

American Bittern 1 [6]

Great Blue Heron 15

Great Egret 2

Turkey Vulture 3

Osprey 3

Bald Eagle 9 [7]

Northern Harrier 2

Red-tailed Hawk 5

American Kestrel 2

Peregrine Falcon 1 [8]

Virginia Rail 8

Sora 12

American Coot 106

Sandhill Crane 1 [9]

Killdeer 2

Greater Yellowlegs 1

Least Sandpiper 30

Common Snipe 1

Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 [10]

Mourning Dove 1 [11]

Belted Kingfisher 1 [12]

Downy Woodpecker 1

Hairy Woodpecker 2

Northern Flicker 4

Warbling Vireo 1

Western Scrub-Jay 6

Tree Swallow 100

Barn Swallow 15

Black-capped Chickadee 6

Bushtit 2

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 2

Bewick's Wren 9

House Wren 4

Marsh Wren 13

American Robin 10

European Starling 15

Orange-crowned Warbler 7

Yellow Warbler 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler 16

Black-throated Gray Warbler 4

Common Yellowthroat 33

Wilson's Warbler 4

Spotted Towhee 12

Savannah Sparrow 1

Song Sparrow 42

Black-headed Grosbeak 1 [13]

Red-winged Blackbird 45

Yellow-headed Blackbird 1

Brown-headed Cowbird 6

Purple Finch 3

House Finch 5

American Goldfinch 10



Footnotes:



[1] adults & 19 goslings, River S Unit

[2] drake on Carty Unit, pairs on River S Unit

[3] River S Unit

[4] adult pair, Ruddy Lake

[5] Carty Unit

[6] Kiwa Trail

[7] adult & juvenile - Carty Unit

Adults & juvenile - River S Unit

[8] Ruddy Lake

[9] South Big Lake

[10] River S Unit

[11] Carty Unit

[12] Carty Unit

[13] Carty Unit



Total number of species seen: 70