[obol] Astoria and WArrenton bike ride - 10/27/2006

[Mike Patterson]

I road my bike from the Astoria Mitigation Bank along the
Youngs Bay Dike to King Avenue and back along Airport Rd
today under sunny skies and temperatures in the low 60's.

An immature SWAMP SPARROW was skulking around the big fence
at the runway corner of the mitigation dike.  In the same
general area was an imm. NORTHERN SHRIKE.

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED and CACKLING GEESE mixed in with the
LAWN CARP on Airport Rd.

Big flock of AMERICAN COOTS on Youngs Bay.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Greater White-fronted Goose         4 [1] 
Canada Goose                       58
Cackling Goose                      3 [2] 
Gadwall                             2
American Wigeon                    23
Mallard                            65
Northern Pintail                   40
Green-Winged Teal                   6
Greater Scaup                       6
Hooded Merganser                   12
Pied-billed Grebe                   1
Double-crested Cormorant            4
Great Blue Heron                    3
White-tailed Kite                   1 [3] 
Northern Harrier                    2
Red-tailed Hawk                     2
Virginia Rail                       3
American Coot                     300
Dunlin                            300
Common Snipe                        1
Mew Gull                            8
Ring-billed Gull                    4
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher                   1
Downy Woodpecker                    3
Northern Flicker                    3
Northern Shrike                     1 [4] 
Hutton's Vireo                      1
Steller's Jay                       2
American Crow                      30
Black-capped Chickadee             23
Chestnut-backed Chickadee           4
Bushtit                             4
Brown Creeper                       1
Bewick's Wren                       5
Winter Wren                         3
Marsh Wren                         45
Golden-crowned Kinglet             16
Ruby-crowned Kinglet               22
American Robin                     18
European Starling                  10
Cedar Waxwing                       9
Orange-crowned Warbler              1 [5] 
Yellow-rumped Warbler               6
Townsend's Warbler                  3
Savannah Sparrow                    1
Fox Sparrow                        57
Song Sparrow                       60
Lincoln's Sparrow                  12
Swamp Sparrow                       1 [6] 
Golden-crowned Sparrow             14
Dark-eyed Junco                     2
Red-winged Blackbird                2
House Finch                        14
Pine Siskin                         6
American Goldfinch                 12

Footnotes:

[1]  Airport Rd
[2]  Airport Rd
[3]  King Avenue
[4]  Astoria Mitigation Bank; imm.
[5]  lutescens
[6]  Astoria Mitigation Bank; imm; dull looking and mostly silent.

Total number of species seen: 57

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
I'm not jealous or 
Why I've never Seen Black-throated Blue Warbler in Oregon
http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/004174.html