Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
25 Apr 1998 0800 to 0830r

Tide:low
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind SW 5-10; Temp 50F


Method: 30 min (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.

Fly Ocean Beach River total
Pacific Loon PALO 1260 90 1350
RT Loon RTLO 3 3
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 4 4
Brown Pelican BRPE 5 5
Brant BRAN 78 78
Green-winged Teal GWTE 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 19 12 31
White-wing Scoter WWSC 2 2
scoter sp. 45 45
West Gull WEGU 7 7
GW Gull GWGU 3 3
WxGW Gull WExGW 2 2
Bonapart's Gull BOGU 33 33
Common Murre COMU 5 5
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 1

Notes: A steady stream of PACIFIC LOONS was heading north at an average
of 42 birds/minute. BONAPART'S GULLS were also flying north at a steady
rate. 5 BROWN PELICANS can by in a group at about 10 minutes into the
count. There weren't many birds sitting on the ocean (or at least visible
on the ocean).

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 _Birds and other Wildlife of the
mpatters at orednet.org Columbia River Estuary_
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