[obol] Lower Columbia Birders - 3/3/2007

[Mike Patterson]

Lower Columbia Birders - 3/3/2007

The Lower Columbia Birder went for their first of the month walk
today to Svensen and Brownsmead.  It was a good day for ducks.

We found 1 EURASIAN WIGEON in the wigeon flock at Jackson Rd.
an AMERICAN x EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAl was with other Green-wings
along Gnat Creek east of the Station Rd.

We had no difficulty locating the BLACK PHOEBE at the Grange and
were able to study it at length.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Snow Goose                         24 [1] 
Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck                           2
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon                     1 [2] 
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler                   1
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye                    1
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon                   1
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe                        1
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret                         1
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs                  6
Least Sandpiper                    12
Dunlin                              8
Mew Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Barn Owl                            1
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker                    1
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe                        1 [3] 
Hutton's Vireo                      2
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler                  1
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow                   1
White-crowned Sparrow               2
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark                  6
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1]  single flyover flock at Bughole
[2]  Jackson Rd
[3]  Brownsmead Grange

Total number of species seen: 72

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
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