Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
16 Aug 1998 0930hr to 1000hr

Tide:high
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind SW 5-10; Temp 60F


Method: 30 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
Common Loon COLO 2 2
Pacific Loon PALO 5 5
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 41 30 71
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 1
DC Cormorant DCCO 2 1 3
Brown Pelican BRPE 27 1 28
Surf Scoter SUSC 3 200 203
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 1
Black Scoter BLSC 1 1 2
West Gull WEGU 20 24 44
GW Gull GWGU 1 4 5
WxGW Gull WExGW 8 8
California Gull CAGU 4 4
Heermann's Gull HEEG 3 8 1 12
Caspian Tern CATE 8 240 248
Wandering Tattler WATA 1 1
Western Sandpiper WESA 30 30
Common Murre COMU 38 20 58
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 2 4
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 2 2
Am Crow AMCR 2 2

Notes: A squall cut the observation time this morning to about
30min. Numbers of CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON MURRES have dropped
significantly from the beginning of the week


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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