Subject: SEAWATCH: SJCR 8/14/1999
Date: Aug 14 11:46:22 1999
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at oregonvos.net


Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
14 Aug 1999 0850-950hr

Tide:low
Weather: partly cloudy
Wind SW 10-15; Temp 60F


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 1 37 38
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 29 29
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 150 25 175
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 1
DC Cormorant DCCO 8 8
Brown Pelican BRPE 84 25 103 3 215
Northern Pintail NOPI 3 3
American Wigeon AMWI 8 8
Surf Scoter SUSC 195 195
White-wing Scoter WWSC 8 2 10
West Gull WEGU 15 8 23
GW Gull GWGU 4 4
WxGW Gull WExGW 2 2 4
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
California Gull CAGU 5 14 19
Heermann's Gull HEEG 66 66
gull sp. 75 75
Caspian Tern CATE 200 517 717
Semi Plover SEPL 2 2
Black Turnstone BLTU 1 1
Western Sandpiper WESA 15 15
Least Sandpiper LESA 1 1
phalarope sp 3 3
Common Murre COMU 270 6 276
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 3 1 4
Barn Swallow BARS 7 7

Notes: SOOTY SHEARWATER numbers are beginning to increase as are
PACIFIC LOON numbers. COMMON MURRE and CASPIAN TERN numbers are
on the way down.

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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