North Coast Report - 4/23/95
Clatsop, Co. OR

Lots of shorebird movement at the SJCR, almost all of it flyover.
Brant (44)
Canada Goose-one of the small races (30)
Semipalmated Plover (3)
Ruddy Turnstone (45)
Whimbrel (1)
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
Short-billed Dowitcher (28)
Dunlin (363)
Sanderling (300)
Western Sandpiper (65)
Least Sandpiper (32)
Red-necked Phalarope (9)
American Pipit (5)

Wireless Rd at high tide had over 100 Dowitchers and the ones I
could see well were Short-bills. There were 3 WHIMBREL here as
well, lots of pipits and Savanna Sparrows and at least one VESPER
SPARROW.

New arrivals this week include WILSON'S WARBLER and CLIFF SWALLOW.




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* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * "Time flies like an arrow;
* mpatters at ednet1.osl.or.gov * fruit flies like a banana."
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