Columbia Estuary Report - 08/01/1999

The LAUGHING GULL seen on Saturday morning has still not been relocated.

Complete details on this bird are available at:
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/obrc/lagu.html

CASPIAN TERN numbers on the South Jetty beach and other places are peaking
as birds take their children and move away from the breeding colonies. About
1000 birds can now be seen on the river beach.

GREAT EGRETS are dispersing into the area. One was on the first pond at the
Neawanna Wetland Preserve in Seaside. A second was at the Coast Guard Cove
at Ft Canby in Washington.

VAUX'S SWIFTS are beginning to gather at their roost site in Chinook,
WA.
A hatching year COMMON RAVEN was near the Chinook River on Sunday.

Shorebirds are still spotty, but juveniles are beginning to arrive. Two
GREATER YELLOWLEGS were at the Neawanna Wetlands ponds on Friday. WESTERN
and LEAST SANDPIPERS can now be found at the SJCR shorebird ponds. Four
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were feeding on the exposed mud at the SW corner of
Trestle Bay Saturday on the incoming tide.

--
Mike Patterson The common view of science is that it is a sort of machine
Astoria, OR for increasing the race's store of dependable facts.
mpatters at oregonvos.net It is that only in part; in even larger part
it is a machine for upsetting undependable facts.

----- H.L.Mencken
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