Weekly Bird Sightings Beginning Aug 28, 2010 Notice! The sightings below are not exhaustive. These are sightings that several birders, working collaboratively, have noted at the River "S" unit of the Ridgefield NWR throughout the week. It is our wish that this weekly list will give you an idea of what you can find at the refuge and will inspire you to "go birding" and make up your own list. Perhaps you will be the one to find some of the uncommon (**) or rare (****) birds. Good Luck and Happy Birding! Canada Goose Pectoral Sandpiper **** European Starling Wood Duck Long-billed Dowitcher ** Cedar Waxwing Gadwall Wilson's Snipe Yellow Warbler ** Mallard Rock Pigeon Common Yellowthroat Cinnamon Teal Mourning Dove Western Tanager ** Northern Shoveler Great Horned Owl ** Spotted Towhee Northern Pintail Vaux's Swift ** Savannah Sparrow Green-winged Teal ** Belted Kingfisher Song Sparrow Pied-billed Grebe Downy Woodpecker Black-headed Grosbeak American Bittern Northern Flicker Red-winged Blackbird Great Blue Heron Pileated Woodpecker ** Western Meadowlark ** Great Egret ** Western Wood Pewee Yellow-headed Blackbird Green Heron ** Steller's Jay Purple Finch ** Turkey Vulture Western Scrub Jay House Finch Osprey American Crow American Goldfinch Bald Eagle Common Raven **   Northern Harrier Tree Swallow   Cooper's Hawk ** Violet-green Swallow   Red-shouldered Hawk ** N. Rough-winged Swallow **   Red-tailed Hawk Bank Swallow ****   American Kestrel Cliff Swallow **   Sora ** Barn Swallow   American Coot Black-capped Chickadee   American Golden Plover **** Red-breasted Nuthatch   Semipalmated Plover** White-breasted Nuthatch   Killdeer Brown Creeper   Greater Yellowlegs Bewick's Wren   Lesser Yellowlegs ** Pacific Wren **   Western Sandpiper ** Marsh Wren ss: Subspecies Least Sandpiper ** Swainson's Thrush ** ** Uncommon Baird's Sandpiper **** American Robin **** Rare                                                         For information contact Will Clemons, Al Larrabee, or Roger Windemuth © 1996-2010 by The Friends of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, All Rights Reserved All photos and graphics are under copyright by photographers. Most wildlife photos © Roger Windemuth ©2009 Web site and website design donated to the Friends of the Ridgefield NWR by Graticle Designs & Brett Lovins Please do not use photos, graphics, layout without written permission from the copyright holders.