Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
13 Aug 1997 - 0925 to 1025

Tide: in coming
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind southwest at 5mph; Temp 60F

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 ocean rocks total
Common Loon COLO 1 1
Pacific Loon PALO 1 7 8
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 364 364
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 36 10 134 180
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 14 15
DC Cormorant DCCO 1 1
Brown Pelican BRPE 9 11 181 201
Harlequin Duck HADU 5 5
White-wing Scoter WWSC 11 11
Black Scoter BLSC 27 27
West Gull WEGU 33 97 130
WxGW Gull WExGW 3 3
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 1 1
Heerman's Gull HEEG 11 10 1 22
Caspian Tern CATE 1 1
Surfbird SURF 3 3
Black Turnstone BLTU 2 2
Common Murre COMU 22 22 44
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 35 35 70
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1
alcid sp 1 5 6
Raven RAVE 1 1

NOTES: There appears to be a movement of PIGEON GUILLEMOTS. Many were
seen flying by and there were several rafts of them on the ocean. There
were no COMMON MURRES on any of the rocks around Ecola. The SOOTY
SHEARWATER movement continues at a rate closely matched to the rate
reported from SJCR on Wednesday.

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


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* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * when the wind is southerly,
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