Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
21 Aug 1998 08450hr to 1045hr

Tide:low
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind SW 0-5; Temp 65F


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 1 5 6
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 16 16
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 63 40 103
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 1
DC Cormorant DCCO 7 1 8
Brown Pelican BRPE 16 1 70 87
Surf Scoter SUSC 232 232
White-wing Scoter WWSC 4 4
scoter sp. 10 10
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 22 51 73
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
WxGW Gull WExGW 3 5 8
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 30 32
California Gull CAGU 1 9 10
Heermann's Gull HEEG 39 1 5 45
Caspian Tern CATE 40 229 269
Wandering Tattler WATA 1 1
Common Murre COMU 40 30 70
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 3 2 5
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1
Great Blue Heron GBLH 1 1
Osprey OSPR 1 1
Vaux's Swift VASW 9 9
Barn Swallow BARS 83 83
N Rough-winged Swallow NRWS 1 1


Notes: A very impressive movement of BARN SWALLOWS with a few
VAUX'S SWIFTS moved through (about 66 birds) at abot 30 minutes
into the hour. COMMON MURRES were in very low numbers.


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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