Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
22 May 1999 1000hr-1030hr

Tide:low
Weather: clear
Wind SE 10-150; Temp 60F


Method: 30 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 3 3
Pacific Loon PALO 82 7 89
West Grebe WEGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 50 50
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 50 50
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 3 3
Northern Shoveler NSHO 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 20 18 38
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 1
West Gull WEGU 30 10 40
GW Gull GWGU 5 5
WxGW Gull WExGW 10 10
Black-legged Kittiwake BLKI 3 3
Bonapart's Gull BOGU 26 5 31
gull sp. 100 300 400
Caspian Tern CATE 1 1
Arctic Tern ARTE 5 5
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 3 3
Common Murre COMU 420 15 435
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 1
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 1 2

Notes: The number of PACIFIC LOONS and SOOTY SHEARWATERS moving
past the jetty has increased since last week. A group of 5
ARCTIC TERNS were feeding with BONAPART'S GULLS.through most of
the observation period. Also seen, but outside the time observation
period were BRANT and COMMON MERGANSER. 2 GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS
and an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER were also seen on the jetty outside
the observation period.

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


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Astoria, OR Language is a poor enough means of communication
mpatters at orednet.org and we've got to use all the words we've got....
Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands
Henry Drummond in "Inherit the Wind"

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