Subject: Ocean Shores trip
Date: Oct 12 07:39:29 1998
From: Stump - stump at techline.com


Pelagic trip from Westport got cancelled because of weather so was able to
spend a few hours Sunday morning at Ocean Shores. The 2 White Pelicans are
still hanging around and we're getting more and more ducks in the area.

Saw 45 species in 3 hours. Listed in order of sighting.
Crow
Steller's Jay
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Western Gull
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American Coot
American White Pelican
Mallard
Gadwall
Horned Grebe
Common Loon
Great Blue Heron
Northern Pintail
Belted Kingfisher
European Starling
American Robin
Savannah Sparrow
Lesser Scaup
Peregrine Falcon (flew by about 30 feet from us with 10 crows chasing it)
Brewer's Blackbird
Northern Harrier
Black-bellied Plover
Brant
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Black Turnstone
Glaucous-winged Gull
House Finch
Brown Pelican
Heerman's Gull
Pelagic Cormorant
Herring Gull
Surfbird
Surf Scoter (about 300 feeding near the jetty)
Sooty Shearwater (hundreds flying along horizon)
Hooded Merganser
Greater Yellowlegs
HOQUIAM SEWAGE PONDS
Black-capped Chickadee
Ring-necked Duck
Canvasback
Ruddy Duck
Northern Shoveler
Killdeer
Whimbrel

Bruce Fischer