Wednesday Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
13 Aug 1997 0910 to 1010hr

Tide:high
Weather: cloudy
Wind southwest at 5 mph; Temp 60F
visibility nominal, could not see horizon.

Method: One hour (timed) station count 100m west of "3 rocks" on
top of SJCR using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting on beach, sitting
on ocean or sitting on river.

flyby beach ocean river total
Common Loon COLO 3 3
Pacific Loon PALO 1 3 4
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
West Grebe WEGR 2 2
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 326 326
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 40 2 42
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 4 4
DC Cormorant DCCO 4 3 7
Brown Pelican BRPE 23 23
Surf Scoter SUSC 187 187
White-wing Scoter WWSC 2 5 7
Black Scoter BLSC 7 7
West Gull WEGU 25 24 49
GW Gull GWGU 2 1 3
WxGW Gull WExGW 5 5 10
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
California Gull CAGU 31 7 38
Heerman's Gull HEEG 23 1 24
Caspian Tern CATE 7 6 13
Black Turnstone BLTU 2 2
Wandering Tattler WATA 1 1
Western Sandpiper WESA 9 9
Common Murre (adult) COMU 34 4 38
(juvs) 3 3
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 14 2 16
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1 2
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 1
Cassin's Auklet CAAU 1 1
alcid sp. 6 6

Notes: CASPIAN TERNS were in very low numbers today. COMMON MURRE
flyby numbers were also low. 3 juvenile murres were seen swimming with
adults. SOOTY SHEARWATERS were moving through in pulses.

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


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