Thursday Station Count for
the Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
10 July 1997 0930 to 1030

Tide: out going
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind southwest at 5-10mph; 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 rocks ocean total
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 135 150 50 335
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 5 1 6
Brown Pelican BRPE 1 51 52
Harlequin Duck HADU 6 6
Surf Scoter SUSC 14 14
RB Meganser RBME 2 2
West Gull WEGU 30 91 121
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
Heerman's Gull HEEG 10 21 31
Caspian Tern CATE 2 2
Black Oystercatcher BLOY 7 7
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 7 7
Common Murre COMU 1040 3130 3107 7277
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 16 5 24 45
Am Crow AMCR 3 3

Notes: The number of COMMON MURRES was noticeably down from last week
(22 000 on the rocks last week). There was lots of murres movements in
all directions. There were fewer BRANDT'S CORMORANTS on the rocks this
week as well.

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


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*********************************** I got the blues so bad one time
* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * it put my face in a permanent frown
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