Subject: SEAWATCH: Peter Iredale overlook 07/02/1999
Date: Jul 2 11:43:11 1999
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at oregonvos.net


Count for
the Peter Iredale Overlook, Ft Stevens, Clatsop Co., OR
02 July 1999 0920-0950hr

Tide:out going
Weather: mostly cloudy with showers
Wind W 5-10; Temp 55F


Method: 30 min count from Peter Iredale overlook at Ft Stevens St Pk
4km SE SJCR using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting on beach, or sitting
on ocean.

Flyby Ocean Beach total
Common Loon COLO 1 1 2
Pacific Loon PALO 6 6
West Grebe WEGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 22 10 32
Brown Pelican BRPE 10 1 11
Pomarine Jaeger POJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 15 40 10 65
GW Gull GWGU 2 2
California Gull CAGU 10 10
Heerman's Gull HEEG 2 1 3
gull sp. 100 100
Caspian Tern CATE 15 25 40
Greater Yellowlegs GRYE 1 1
phalarope s 15 15
Common Murre COMU 1720 550 2270

Notes: Unsettled showery weather sent me to the alternative observation
site at the upper parking lot of the Peter Iredale access. There are
still big numbers of COMMON MURRES moving around. There were good numbers
of CASPAIN TERNS fishing at the breaker line. A single dark phase
sub-adult POMARINE JAEGER was chasing terns around over most of the
observation period. A flock probable RED-NECKED PHALAROPES (listed
officially as phlaropes sp.) landed on the water just beyond the
breaked

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


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