Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
07 Aug 1999 0855-955hr

Tide:high
Weather: cloudy
Wind SW 15-20; Temp 55F


Method: 60 minute station count at 100m west of "3 rocks" on
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
Pacific Loon PALO 2 2
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 2 2
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 26 26
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 3 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 5 5
Brown Pelican BRPE 87 10 30 127
Gadwall GADW 1 1
Surf Scoter SUSC 200 200
White-wing Scoter WWSC 9 9
scoter sp. 100 100
West Gull WEGU 8 19 27
GW Gull GWGU 3 1 4
WxGW Gull WExGW 5 8 13
Herring Gull HERG 1 1
California Gull CAGU 30 6 36
Heermann's Gull HEEG 27 13 40
gull sp. 50 25 75
Caspian Tern CATE 37 620 657
Western Sandpiper WESA 21 21
Least Sandpiper LESA 2 2
Common Murre COMU 579 20 599
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 3 4
Cassin's Auklet CAAU 1 1
Great Blue Heron GBLH 1 1
Hummingbird sp. 4 4
Barn Swallow BARS 4 4
N Rough-wing Swallow NRWS 1 1

Notes: There was a to-shore movement of hummingbirds in the first
10 mins of the period. A storm last night left the ocean very rough
as a consequence observations on the ocean are probably low. Both
CASPIAN TERNS and COMMON MURRES are beginning to disperse and were
present in significantly lower numbers compared to last week.

A running account of this and other seawatches is available at:
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/enso/jetty.html


--
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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