Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
17 Jun 1998 0820 to 0920hr

Tide:out going
Weather: cloudy
Wind W 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 3 3
Pacific Loon PALO 73 108 181
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 4 4
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 147 15 162
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 1 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 32 32
Brown Pelican BRPE 75 75
BLACK SWAN 1 1
Surf Scoter SUSC 95 95
White-wing Scoter WWSC 8 8
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 5 9 14
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
WxGW Gull WExGW 3 3 6
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
Heerman's Gull HEEG 10 10
Caspian Tern CATE 15 21 36
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE RNPH 2 2
Common Murre COMU 2279 13 2292
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 9 11
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1 2
Bald Eagle BAEA 2 2
N Rough-wing Swallow NRWS 1 1

Notes: Most of the PACIFIC LOONS were sitting on the ocean moving
around in feeding groups of 20-30. COMMON MURRES were mostly moving
north, about 10% were moving south. Two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were
feeding on the ocean near the jetty for most of the observation period.
The BLACK SWAN (certainly an escape) was fly north with a group of
murres about one half mile out.


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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