[obol] Ridgefield NWR and Vancouver Lake Park goodies

[Bill Clemons]

Debby de Carlo and I went birding today in rainy SW
Washington.

West of Vancouver at Vancouver Lake Park (in the
parking lot shrub/tree areas near the entrance) we saw
a pair of RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKERS and a few
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS (both white striped and tan
striped forms).   

At Ridgefield NWR River "S" Unit we saw a juvenile
NORTHERN SHRIKE on two different little white boundary
signposts at the SE corner of Rest Lake.  We also
watched it hover as it hunted Kestrel-like.

The HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK is still hanging around,
usually in a large Oak on the dike at the E boundary E
of Rest Lake about 200 yds S of where the road turns N
toward the exit/entrance booth.  It has been there for
months now.

Near the start of the loop we saw a Coyote (female)
that almost caught a Nutria, making contact and
missing so close she seemingly must have had fur in
her teeth.

Complete list of birds seen/heard:


Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Gull (Species)
Great Horned Owl                        On Nest
Red-breasted Sapsucker              Pair
Northern Flicker
Northern Shrike                           Juvenile
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow              Tan + Wht Striped
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird


Ridgefield NWR River "S" Unit is ~4mi W of I-5 at Exit
14 in SW Washington;
http://www.fws.gov/ridgefieldrefuges/ 

Bill Clemons
SW of Portland in Mtn Park
Willclemons AT Yahoo dot com



 
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