Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
22 July 1998 1015hr to 1120hr

Tide:incoming
Weather: cloudy, visibility to 3km
Wind NW 10-15; 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
Common Loon COLO 1 1
Pacific Loon PALO 20 9 29
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 18 18
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 86 86
DC Cormorant DCCO 8 8
Brown Pelican BRPE 54 5 59
OLDSQUAW OLDS 1 1
Surf Scoter SUSC 120 120
White-wing Scoter WWSC 3 3
West Gull WEGU 25 38 63
GW Gull GWGU 1 1 2
California Gull CAGU 2 2
Heermann's Gull HEEG 35 2 37
Caspian Tern CATE 12 458 470
Elegant Tern ELTE 1 1
Western Sandpiper WESA 1 38 39
Common Murre COMU 3844 10 3854
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 6 1 7
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 7 7
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 1
Cassin's Auklet CAAU 1 1
Peregrine PERE 1 1
Barn Swallow BARS 12 12


Notes: A male OLDSQUAW spent most of the hour feeding in the surf
near the observation station. It did not have long tail feathers
was beginning to get blotchy around the crown and nape. I stopped
clock for 5 minutes to write details. There 55 hatching year CASPIAN
TERNS on the beach with adults including at least on banded juvenile.
COMMON MURRES were moving north in large strings (most flocks 100+).


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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