Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
12 Apr 1998 - 0930 to 1000

Tide: low
Weather: partly cloudy
Wind south 10mph; Temp 45F

Method: 30 minute (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.

rocks ocean flyby total
Pacific Loon PALO 47 47
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Brown Pelican BRPE 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 36 2 38
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 3 5
Harlequin Duck HADU 3 3
White-wing Scoter WWSC 9 2 11
Black Scoter BLSC 3 3
West Gull WEGU 133 6 10 149
GW Gull GWGU 1 10 11
WxGW Gull WExGW 1 2 10 13
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 1 1
Black-leg Kittiwake BLKI 5 5
Black Oystercatcher BLOY 3 3
Common Murre COMU 1300 20500 300 22100
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 3 3
Peregrine PERE 1 1
Common Raven CORA 1 1

NOTES: I arrived shortly after a heavy shower. The rock directly west
of the Ecola Lookout (Seal Rock) was covered with COMMON MURRES. The
majority of murres in the water were just off the Chapman Point Rocks
to the south. No birds were on the Chapman Point Rocks. At about 19min
into the watch a PEREGRINE buzzed Seal Rock scattering all the birds on
the upper tier. At about 25min a Coast Guard helicopter made a flyover
and about 1/3 of the remaining murres flew off.
The year's first BROWN PELICAN (an adult) flew past at about
10min and a group 5 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES sat on the ocean for the
entire watch 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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* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
* mpatters at orednet.org *
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters