Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
30 Aug 1999 0910-1020hr

Tide:low
Weather: mostly 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
Common Loon COLO 1 1
Pacific Loon PALO 2 4 6
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 36 18 54
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 21 24 45
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 2 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 2 2
Brown Pelican BRPE 65 20 31 116
Surf Scoter SUSC 2 126 128
White-wing Scoter WWSC 2 1 3
West Gull WEGU 20 20 8 48
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
WxGW Gull WExGW 1 2 3
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 1 1
California Gull CAGU 10 20 20 50
Heermann's Gull HEEG 29 50 4 83
gull sp. 100 100
Caspian Tern CATE 10 37 47
Wandering Tattler WATA 1 1
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 4 4
Common Murre COMU 330 330
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 1
Barn Swallow BARS 4 4

Notes: A run of small fish very near shore brought most species seen
today very close many of the COMMON MURRES are still tending chicks.
SOOTY SHEARWATERS were also very close in. There did not appear to
be any movement of birds beyond those feeding in close.


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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