Columbia Estuary Report - 10/31/1999

A SWAMP SPARROW was at the Astoria Mitigation Bank this morning.
A LESSER YELLOWLEGS was with 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS on the tide
flats of the Lewis & Clark River nearby.

A bit of a storm last night blew in a few BONAPARTE'S GULLS
onto Youngs Bay. BONEY'S were also on Trestle Bay Yesterday.

The Saturday Seawatch turned up a BULLER'S SHEARWATER and a
POMARINE JAEGER along with 35 BROWN PELICANS and lots of
CALIFORNIA GULLS. 12 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were on the shorebird
flats a parking lot C, SJCR.

A LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, blown in during the storm on
Wednesday was reported by Scott Rea.

--
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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