[obol] Lower Columbia Birders - Feb 2, 2008

[Mike Patterson]

The Lower Columbia Birders met today under very cold, very rainy
skies (even some brief wet snow flurries) to check out the action
at Brownsmead.

Yes, we saw the ARCTIC LOON.  Though none of the other recently
reported goodies. Lots of ducks and geese.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal                      12
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-Winged Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-throated Loon                   1
Arctic Loon                         1 [1] 
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
White-tailed Kite                   1
Bald Eagle                          8
Northern Harrier                    3
Red-tailed Hawk                     8
American Kestrel                    4
Merlin                              1
Peregrine Falcon                    2
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Common Snipe
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
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 Sparrow

Footnotes:

[1]  from Pentilla Rd

Total number of species seen: 61

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
Gull, you really got me going
http://www.surfbirds.com/blogs/mbalame/archives/2008/01/gull20080105.html