Thursday (on Friday today) Jetty Count for
the Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
1 Aug 1997 - 0915 to 1015

Tide: in coming
Weather: sunny
Wind west at 5-10mph; Temp 65F

Method: One hour (timed) station count from observation deck at Ecola
Point using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting rocks, sitting
on ocean.

flyby rocks ocean total
Pacific Loon PALO 4 4
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 4 4
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 150 60 150 360
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 4 11 17
Brown Pelican BRPE 15 42 187 244
Harlequin Duck HADU 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 21 21
White-wing Scoter WWSC 7 7
West Gull WEGU 10 70 80
WxGW Gull WExGW 1 1
California Gull CAGU 31 31
Heerman's Gull HEEG 20 5 3 28
Caspian Tern CATE 8 8
Elegant Tern ELTE 9 9
Black Oystercatcher BLOY 2 2
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 2 2
Common Murre COMU 1850 1200 288 3338
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 46 48
Tufted Puffin TUPU 1 1

NOTES: I counted about 3000 COMMON MURRES on the water at the beginning
of the hour, but by the end there were only about 1200. Presumably many
of the subsequent flyby birds were these. A single group of 9 ELEGANT
TERNS flew by close to shore at about 0930hr. The TUFTED PUFFIN was
flying south at about 1000hr. I saw or hear _no_ murre chicks in the
observation period.

A running account of this and other seawatches is available at:
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/enso/jetty.html


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