Subject: Columbia Estuary Report 04/25/1999
Date: Apr 25 14:53:01 1999
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at OregonVOS.net


Columbia Estuary Report 04/25/1999

A pair of VAUX'S SWIFTS appeared in my neighborhood yesterday. And I
believe I mentioned that a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER was calling from
The Lewis & Clark Elementary School woodland on Friday.

A BRANT was on the mill ponds at the south end of the Neawanna wetland
on Saturday. A flock of 70 BRANT were heading north along Clatsop
Beach on Sunday.

The big news is the yellowlegs movement going on this weekend.
28 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS along with about
160 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a rare spring PECTORAL SANDPIPER
were at the Neawanna Wetland. At least 100 yellowleg (most Greaters)
were on Stanley Lake just south of the Seaside Airport with six
other shorebird species.

Shorebird counts this weekend:
04/24/1999
Clatsop Beach
Western Sandpiper 20
Dunlin 150
Sanderling 110

04/25/1999
Wireless Rd
Black-bellied Plover 2
Least Sandpiper 20

Upper Neawanna wetlands
Short-billed Dowitcher 155
Greater Yellowlegs 28
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Western Sandpiper 56
Least Sandpiper 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 39

Stanley Lake
Black-Bellied Plover 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 120
Common Snipe 5
Greater Yellowlegs 90
Lesser Yellowlegs 21
Western Sandpiper 30
Least Sandpiper 206
Dunlin 20




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