Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
3 Aug 1998 0910hr to 1010hr

Tide:incoming
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind W 5; Temp 60F


Method: 60 minute station count at 100m west of "3 rocks" on
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 7 7
West Grebe WEGR 3 3
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 14 14
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 105 30 135
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 3 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 6 3 2 11
Brown Pelican BRPE 25 2 5 32
Surf Scoter SUSC 300 300
White-wing Scoter WWSC 10 10
LONG-TAILED JAEGER LTJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 30 75 105
GW Gull GWGU 5 10 15
WxGW Gull WExGW 5 5 10
California Gull CAGU 4 22 26
Heermann's Gull HEEG 26 15 41
Caspian Tern CATE 9 409 418
Common Murre COMU 1180 25 1205
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 3 3
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 2 3
Great Blue Heron GBLH 1 1
Barn Swallow BARS 4 4

Notes: A LONG-TAILED JAEGER made a fairly close approach, chasing
(and being chased) by CASPIAN TERNS.


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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