Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
25 Aug 1999 - 1030 to 1100

Tide: high
Weather: cloudy
Wind SW at 5mph; Temp 60F

Method: 30 minute (timed) station count from observation deck at Ecola
Point using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting rocks, sitting
on ocean.

flyby ocean rocks total
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 1500 1500
Brown Pelican BRPE 6 24 30
Double-crested Cormorant DCCO 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 20 40 237 297
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 3 22 27
Harlequin Duck HADU 1 12 13
Surf Scoter SUSC 41 41
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 1
West Gull WEGU 10 4 34 48
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
WxGW Gull WExGW 2 3 5
Heermann's Gull HEEG 2 2
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
Black Oystercatcher BLOY 2 2
Common Murre COMU 2 3 5
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 12 14
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 2 5 7
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 2 2
Cassin's Auklet CAAU 1 1


NOTES: COMMON MURRES have pretty much cleared out from the nesting
rocks at Ecola Point. There are still plenty of PIGEON GUILLEMOTS
including juveniles. Other Alcids were well represented. SOOTY
SHEARWATERS were moving past at about 50/min. The PARASITIC JAEGER
was an adult with tail streamers. .


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