Columbia Estuary Report - 8/24/98

There were two very young YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (young
enough not to have yellow rumps) flitting around in the
parking lot at SJCR on 8/22.

Two COMMON SNIPE have been hanging out at the little pond
just west of Battery Russell on the road out to the SJCR.
Also there were 6 LEAST SANDPIPERS, a GREATER YELLOWLEGS
and some very young WOOD DUCKS.

Shorebird counts (are numbers this unimpressive everywhere?:
8/22
Trestle Bay
Semipalmated Plover 16
Baird's Sandpiper 2
Western Sandpiper 20
Least Sandpiper 1

8/24
Stanley Lake/Trail's End (Seaside)
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Western Sandpiper 20

SJCR
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Least Sandpiper 9

Wireless Rd
Lesser Yellowlegs 9
Least Sandpiper 1




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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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