[obol] Birding Trip Report: Columbia Slough, Multnomah County, Oregon on March 08, 2008

[nettielh at yahoo.com]

This report was mailed for Annette Lange Hildebrand by http://birdnotes.net

Date: March 8, 2008
Location: Columbia Slough, Multnomah County, Oregon

Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 30%
Precipitation: none

CANOE LAUNCH - trail off Airport Way, small pond west of parking lot
and then walk north,along slough to the Columbia River.
Several GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, both in the parking lot and along
the trail.  Beautiful bright golden-yellow stripe on top of head.
Heard them first ... really looked and wow.  Beautiful little things!

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Redhead
Unknown Scaup
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Unidentified gull
Allen's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird

Total number of species seen: 32