Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
11 Nov 1997 - 0940 to 1010

Tide: high
Weather: mostly sunny
Wind southeast at 5mph; Temp 55F

Method: 30 min (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 3 3
Pacific Loon PALO 56 215 271
RT Loon RTLO 7 7
West Grebe WEGR 9 9
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 1
DC Cormorant DCCO 1 1
Harlequin Duck HADU 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 9 8 17
White-wing Scoter WWSC 21 5 26
Black Scoter BLSC 33 33
Pomarine Jaeger POJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 2 2
GW Gull GWGU 5 4 9
California Gull CAGU 2 10 12
Heerman's Gull HEEG 1 1
Black Turnstone BLTU 2 2
Common Murre COMU 6 3 9
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 2 2
Bald Eagle BAEA 1 1

NOTES: This was a timed 30 minute seawatch. There are still large
numbers of PACIFIC LOONS in the area. A single adult intermediate
phase POMARINE JAEGER came by at about 1000hr. There were no
Brown Pelicans seen and only one HEERMANN'S GULL.

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 am but mad north-north-west;
* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * when the wind is southerly,
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