Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
19 Oct 1997 1000 to 1030hr

Tide:high
Weather: sunny
Wind NE 0-5; Temp 60F


Method: Unofficial and untimed (>30min)

flyby beach ocean river total
Common Loon COLO 6 6
Pacific Loon PALO 70 152 222
RT Loon RTLO 38 38
West Grebe WEGR 23 23
Horned Grebe HOGR 7 7
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 12 12
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 2
DC Cormorant DCCO 1 1
Brown Pelican BRPE 14 6 20
Surf Scoter SUSC 12 15 5 32
White-wing Scoter WWSC 5 5
Black Scoter BLSC 9 9
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 10 9 19
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
WxGW Gull WExGW 5 1 6
California Gull CAGU 10 65 5 80
Mew Gull MEGU 1 1
Heerman's Gull HEEG 3 5 8
Black-legged Kittiwake BLKI 3 1 2 6
Common Murre COMU 1 1

Notes: This is an unofficial jetty count. I spent about 30 minutes
observinig from the station west of the three rock, but I did not have
a clock. The ocean was very calm and there were large numbers of loons
and grebes. A single PARASITIC JAEGER was seen harrassing BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES early in the observation period.


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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