Weekly Bird Sightings Beginning March 6, 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 each 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! Cackling Goose Virginia Rail ** Golden-crowned Kinglet Canada Goose Sora ** Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tundra Swan American Coot Hermit Thrush Wood Duck Sandhill Crane American Robin Gadwall Killdeer European Starling American Wigeon Wilson's Snipe Yellow-rumped Warbler Mallard Ring-billed Gull Spotted Towhee Cinnamon Teal Glaucous-winged Gull Song Sparrow Northern Shoveler Rock Pigeon White-crowned Sparrow ** Northern Pintail Mourning Dove Golden-crowned Sparrow Green-winged Teal Great Horned Owl Red-winged Blackbird Common Teal ** Belted Kingfisher House Finch Ring-necked Duck Red-breasted Sapsucker Pine Siskin ** Lesser Scaup ** Northern Flicker   Bufflehead Pileated Woodpecker **   Hooded Merganser Northern Shrike **   Ruddy Duck Steller's Jay   Pied-billed Grebe Western Scrub-Jay Double-crested Cormorant American Crow American Bittern Tree Swallow   Great Blue Heron Black-capped Chickadee   Bald Eagle Chestnut-backed Chickadee **   Golden Eagle **** Red-breasted Nuthatch   Northern Harrier White-breasted Nuthatch   Cooper's Hawk ** Brown Creeper   Red-tailed Hawk Bewick's Wren   Rough-legged Hawk Wiinter Wren   American Kestral Marsh Wren ** Uncommon     **** Rare                   For information contact Will Clemons, Al Larrabee, or Roger Windemuth © 1996-2009 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.