Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
11 Jun 1998 0830 to 0930hr

Tide:low
Weather: cloudy
Wind SW 1-5; Temp 55F


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 6 6
Pacific Loon PALO 300 39 339
Western Grebe WEGR 1 1
RED-NECKED GREBE RNGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 3 3
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 20 4 24
DC Cormorant DCCO 7 1 8
Brown Pelican BRPE 35 35
Brant BRAN 10 1 11
Surf Scoter SUSC 43 55 98
White-wing Scoter WWSC 6 6
Black Scoter BLSC 7 2 9
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 10 5 15
GW Gull GWGU 2 2 4
WxGW Gull WExGW 1 2 3
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
Heerman's Gull HEEG 3 3
Caspian Tern CATE 8 120 128
Common Murre COMU 1520 35 1555
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 4 1 1 6
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 8 8
Bald Eagle BAEA 3 3


Notes: COMMON MURRES were flying north at a rate of 72/min this
translates to a continuous count of 4320/hr if I had counted only murres.
Large numbers of PACIFIC LOONS are still moving north, as well. A single
alternate plumage RED-NECKED GREBE was unexpected for this time of year.
Three adult BALD EAGLES were sitting together on the beach.




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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