[obol] Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank Wetland Volunteers needed

[Lee Cain]

I am always looking for volunteers to assist on the 10th Annual AHS Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank Wetland Monitoring Event, wherein we team adult mentors in various protocols with two-three 9th grade science students to collect biological and chemical data (Plant, Invasive Plant, Birds, Marsh Wren, Nestbox, Water Quality, Fish, and Amphibian Survey teams) on wetland health.  

Anybody interested in assisting, give me an email; this year's trips will take place May 10-11.  I will be happy to send more details, such as the schedule, what to expect, the protocols, etc.

Co-teacher Glen Fromwiller and I pre-scouted the wetland this AM and found the following species 0800-0900 hrs(lots of family values displayed):

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose                        2 [1] 
Wood Duck                           2
Gadwall                             3
American Wigeon                     2
Mallard                            15
Cinnamon Teal                       4
Northern Pintail                    2
Green-Winged Teal                  45
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead [2] 
Hooded Merganser                    3
Common Merganser                   15 [3] 
Western Grebe                       1 [4] 
Double-crested Cormorant [5] 
Great Blue Heron
Osprey                              1 [6] 
Northern Harrier                    2
Peregrine Falcon                    1
Virginia Rail                       1
Greater Yellowlegs                  3 [7] 
Common Snipe                        2
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull
Unidentified gull
Caspian Tern
Rufous Hummingbird                  2 [8] 
Belted Kingfisher                   1
Downy Woodpecker                    2
Northern Flicker                    4
American Crow
Common Raven                        1
Tree Swallow                       50 [9] 
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow                        2
Black-capped Chickadee              5 [10] 
Bewick's Wren                       3 [11] 
Marsh Wren                         20
American Robin                    200
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler              5
Yellow-rumped Warbler              15 [12] 
Common Yellowthroat                 1
Fox Sparrow                         1
Song Sparrow                       25
White-crowned Sparrow               1
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird               30
American Goldfinch                  5

Footnotes:
[1]  nesting pair
[2]  L & C River
[3]  L & C River
[4]  L & C River
[5]  L & C River
[6]  L & C River
[7]  flyover
[8]  one carrying cattail down
[9]  several pair entering nestboxes
[10] foraging on cattails
[11] carrying food; same bird entered box 27 where there was one egg
[12] Myrtle race

Total number of species seen: 49

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Lee Cain
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Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
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