Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
17 May 1998 0915 to 0945hr

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


Method: appx 30 min (untimed) 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.
Flyby Ocean Beach River Total
Common Loon COLO 2 2
Pacific Loon PALO 55 3 58
West Grebe WEGR 2 2
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 4 4
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 1 2
DC Cormorant DCCO 1 1
Brown Pelican BRPE 9 9
Brant BRAN 11 11
Surf Scoter SUSC 32 22 54
White-wing Scoter WWSC 32 32
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 2 2
West Gull WEGU 10 3 13
GW Gull GWGU 5 5
WxGW Gull WExGW 2 2
Caspian Tern CATE 1 3 4
Common Tern COTE 1 1
Wandering Tattler WATA 5 5
Whimbrel WHIM 3 3
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 1 1
Common Murre COMU 1050 1050

Notes: This was an untimed seawatch (I forgot to bring my clock).
A steady stream of COMMON MURRES were moving north. Therre are still
many PACIFIC LOONS going by, but the numbers are well below previous
watches. Two distinctly different PARASITIC JAEGERS went by about
10 minutes apart. Also of interest were a single COMMON TERN and
a confused looking RED-NECKED PHALAROPE.

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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