Wednesday Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
15 July 1997 0910 to 1010

Tide: in coming
Weather: partly cloudy
Wind northwest at 1-5mph; Temp 62F

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 6 6
Pacific Loon PALO 3 3
CLARK'S GREBE CLGR 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 20 6 26
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 8 8
DC Cormorant DCCO 11 5 1 17
Brown Pelican BRPE 61 2 4 67
Greater Scaup GRSC 3 1 4
Surf Scoter SUSC 7 106 113
White-wing Scoter WWSC 3 4 7
THAYER'S GULL THGU 1 1
West Gull WEGU 11 11
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
WxGW Gull WExGW 8 8
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 7 7
California Gull CAGU 26 26
Heerman's Gull HEEG 63 18 81
Caspian Tern CATE 200 223 423
Western Sandpiper WESA 20 20
Least Sandpiper LESA 3 3
Common Murre COMU 1075 11 1086
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 4 3 7
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1
Great Blue Heron GBLH 1 1
Am Crow AMCR 3 3
Barn Swallow BARS 35 35
Violet-green Swallow VGSW 1 1

NOTES:Another day of strong northerly movements by COMMON MURRES. Large
numbers of HEERMANN'S GULLS were moving north as well. The CLARK'S
GREBE (any comments on early arrival?) was well seen associated with
a nearby flock of SURF SCOTERS immediately south of the observation
station. The THAYER'S GULL gull also seems very unsual. It was a very
worn (nearly white) 1st summer bird associated with West/GW types. There
were at least 5 juvenile CASPIAN TERNS on the beach and many juvenile
CALIFORNIA GULLS.

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


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