Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
24 Jul 1999 1110hr-1210hr

Tide:high
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind NW 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 1 2 3
West Grebe WEGR 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 52 52
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 0
DC Cormorant DCCO 95 95
Brown Pelican BRPE 61 20 81
Surf Scoter SUSC 1 255 256
duck sp 9 9
West Gull WEGU 20 4 24
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
WxGW Gull WExGW 10 3 13
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
California Gull CAGU 1 15 16
Heermann's Gull HEEG 18 18
gull sp. 10 10
Caspian Tern CATE 27 337 364
Ruddy Turnstone RUTU 1 1
Black Turnstone BLTU 1 1
Wandering Tattler WATA 1 1
Western Sandpiper WESA 37 37
Common Murre COMU 5803 56 32 5891
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 5 1 6
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1
Bald Eagle BAEA 1 1

Notes: I counted 102 juv CASPIAN TERNS and no fewer than
28 COMMON MURRE chicks today among the other seabirds. A single
RUDDY TURNSTONE was feeding near the loafing tern flocks. A BALD
EAGLE made a half-hearted attempt at the terns, but was chased off
by a mob of adults

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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