Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
02 July 1998 - 0855 to 0955

Tide: out going
Weather: cloudy
Wind W 1-5; Temp 55F

Method: 60 min (timed) station count from observation deck at Ecola
Point using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting rocks, sitting
on ocean.

rocks ocean flyby total
Common Loon COLO 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 8 8
Brown Pelican BRPE 151 4 155
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 850 50 100 1000
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 50 10 60
Harlequin Duck HADU 11 6 17
Surf Scoter SUSC 224 224
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 1
Black Scoter BLSC 12 12
West Gull WEGU 44 40 84
Heermann's Gull HEEG 5 30 35
California Gull CAGU 1 1
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
Caspian Tern CATE 5 5
Black Oystercatcher BLOY 2 2
Common Murre COMU 8450 2500 3400 14350
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 5 36 1 42
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 4 2 6
Tufted Puffin TUPU 7 7
Peregrine PERE 1 1
American Crow AMCR 1 1

NOTES: There were many more COMMON MURRES at Ecola than I expected.
Murre activity seemed to be split between birds at or near the rocks
and north bound flybys about 1 mile out. There were many BRANDT'S
CORMORANTS and PELAGIC CORMORANTS sitting on nests. The PEREGRINE
was a very dark juvenile and quite possibly a young of the year.

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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