Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
25 Oct 1997 0945 to 1045hr

Tide:high
Weather: sunny
Wind E 15; Temp 50F


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 3 5 8
Pacific Loon PALO 2 3 5
RT Loon RTLO 15 15
West Grebe WEGR 2 14 16
Horned Grebe HOGR 2 2
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 2 2
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 1 16 17
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 2 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 1 1 2
Brown Pelican BRPE 10 10
Northern Shoveler NSHO 2 2
Greater Scaup GRSC 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 3 38 29 70
White-wing Scoter WWSC 5 2 7
Black Scoter BLSC 43 43
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 12 2 14
GW Gull GWGU 2 1 3
WxGW Gull WExGW 5 1 6
California Gull CAGU 9 4 13
Heermann's Gull HEEG 1 1
Black-legged Kittiwake BLKI 7 4 11
Bonapart's Gull BOGU 1 1
Black Turnstone BLTU 1 1
Sanderling SAND 7 7
phalarope sp. 1 1
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 1
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 1 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk SSHA 1 1

Notes: Though there were lots of things around this morning the over all
numbers were not all that impressive. BROWN PELICANS appear to be be down
to a small south bound flocks. Only one HEERMANN'S GULL was seen.
A PIGEON GUILLEMOT (basic plumage) and a RHINOCEROS AUKLET were very close
to the jetty and easily observed. At about 1020hr a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
came in from the ocean along the jetty.


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,
* mpatters at orednet.org * I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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