Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
03 May 1998 0830 to 0900hr

Tide: high
Weather: cloudy
Wind NW 5-10; Temp 50F


Method: 30 min (timed) station count 100m east of "3 rocks" on
top of 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 344 3 5 352
RT Loon RTLO 3 3
West Grebe WEGR 9 9
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 3 3
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 2 2
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 2
Brown Pelican BRPE 1 1
Brant BRAN 73 73
Northern Pintail NOPI 1 1
Greater Scaup GRSC 4 4
Surf Scoter SUSC 138 2 140
White-wing Scoter WWSC 3 3
Black Scoter BLSC 1 15 16
West Gull WEGU 15 2 17
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 1 1
Bonapart's Gull BOGU 20 20
Caspian Tern CATE 40 40
Least Sandpiper LESA 1 1
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 4 4

Notes: The movement of PACIFIC LOONS seems to be on the wane. Birds
were moving through in waves with regular periods of zero count.
A BROWN PELICAN was fishing throughout the period just off the jetty
as were two breeding plumage RED-NECKED GREBES.

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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