Columbia Estuary Report - 8/16/1999

A MOURNING DOVE and 2 MUSKRATS were at the Skipanon Wetland Friday and
Saturday (among the LEAST SANDPIPERS).

3-4 juv plumage WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS were at the Necannicum Wetland
on Saturday looking remarkably like Lincoln Sparrows. WILSON'S WARBLERS
and BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERS are moving around in what I would be
inclined to call a dispersal rather than migration.

Big numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS are on Trestle Bay (66) and the
Necannicum Estuary (64) and a wonderfully tame mixed flock of LEAST and
WESTERN SANDPIPERS has been hanging out at the SCJR shorebird flats.
SOOTY SHEARWATER numbers are building off the jetty as would be
expected for this time of year.

Shorebird counts:
Aug 13 SJCR
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 4
Black Turnstone 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Western Sandpiper 250
Least Sandpiper 400

Aug 14 Trestle Bay
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 66
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Western Sandpiper 1000
Least Sandpiper 400


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