Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004

05/24 — Diane Penttila conducted the General Waterbird Survey at Ouray National Wildlife Refuge and reported the following birds within the survey route:

• Canada geese, 187
• Mallard, 147
• Gadwall, 296
• Northern shoveler, 18
• American wigeon, 8
• Northern pintail, 18
• Green-winged teal, 8
• Cinnamon teal, 38
• Blue-winged teal, 2
• Ring-necked duck, 2
• Scaup, 5
• Redhead, 120
• Ruddy duck, 44
• American coot, 212
• Pied-billed grebe, 16
• Western grebe, 47
• Clark's grebe, 6
• Eared grebe, 52
• Sandhill crane, 4
• Great blue heron, 38 (including 4 colonies)
• Snowy egret, 5
• Cattle egret, 1
• B-C night heron, 20
• D.C. cormorant, 76
• American white pelican, 104
• White-faced ibis, 14
• American bittern, 7
• Killdeer, 4
• American Avocet, 23
• Black-necked stilt, 27
• Wilson's phalarope, 7
• Spotted sandpiper, 3
• Northern harrier, 1
• American kestrel, 2
• Ring-billed gull, 5
• Forster's tern, 11
• Black tern, 16