[obol] Lower Columbia Birders trip - 11/03/2007

[Mike Patterson]

The Lower Columbia Birders went out today under overcast skies,
wind from the SE, upper 40's F°.

Sparrowing was particularly slow today with many of the reliable 
spots, unusually quiet.  We found NORTHERN SHRIKES at two locations,
an ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD at the slough at Wireless Rd and SAVANNAH
SPARROWS at Warrenton Sewage Ponds.


Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Cackling Goose                    125
Wood Duck                           2
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon                   1
Pacific Loon                       20
Pied-billed Grebe
Brown Pelican                       2
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle                          2
Northern Harrier                    4
Red-tailed Hawk                     3
Peregrine Falcon                    1
American Coot
Killdeer                            9
Sanderling                        120
Least Sandpiper                     4
Dunlin                             30
Long-billed Dowitcher              24
Common Snipe                        3
Bonaparte's Gull                    2
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull                    1
California Gull                     1
Thayer's Gull                       1
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake              2
Anna's Hummingbird                  1 [1] 
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Northern Shrike                     2
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren                       2
Winter Wren                         1
Marsh Wren                          6
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet                1
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow                    4
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow                   3
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1]  Wireless Rd, no obvious feeders around

Total number of species seen: 68

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
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