Subject: Columbia Estuary Report 9/7/1999
Date: Sep 7 12:20:39 1999
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at oregonvos.net


Columbia Estuary Report - 9/7/1999

There is some evidence that the fall migration has started here
on the estuary. Good fall was observed on Coxcomb Hill (home of
the Astor Column on Sunday and Monday including a tree full of
HERMIT WARBLERS on Sunday.

The Lower Columbia Birders went out on Saturday to SJCR and found
(among other things) an adult PARASITIC JAEGER and a HORNED GREBE.
The female RUFF (Reeve) seen on Thursday and Friday could not be
relocated, but there are good SANDERLING numbers on the beach.
PECTORAL SANDPPIPER numbers are building. The series of 8+ hightides
next week should be interesting.

A sub-adult POMARINE JAEGER was at the South Jetty Tuesday morning.
There were quite a few sparrows around parking lot C, including a FOX
SPARROW and an early-ish LINCOLN'S SPARROW. A right-on-schedule
AMERICAN PIPIT flew over the willowy area east of the parking lot.
--
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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