[obol] Lower Columbia Birders - 12/01/2007

[Mike Patterson]

The lower Columbia Birders went out on their first of the month
trip this morning under cloudy, cold skies and mixed rain/snow
showers.

Plenty of regular stuff.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-Winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Barrow's Goldeneye                  1 [1] 
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe                        1
Red-necked Grebe                    1
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle                          3
Northern Harrier                    2
Red-tailed Hawk                     4
American Kestrel                    2
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper                   1
Least Sandpiper                    40
Dunlin                           2000
Common Snipe                        4
Bonaparte's Gull                    1
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull                        1
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Anna's Hummingbird                  1 [2] 
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker                    1
Northern Flicker
Northern Shrike                     1 [3] 
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1]  in front of Dairy Queen
[2]  17th while walking from my house to the museum
[3]  King Ave

Total number of species seen: 63
-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
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