Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
11 Aug 2000 1255-1355hr

Tide:high and out going
Weather: Wind SW 5; Temp 68F

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
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 2 2
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 11 40 51
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 3 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 20 3 23
Brown Pelican BRPE 47 2 3 52
Surf Scoter SUSC 1 220 221
White-wing Scoter WWSC 2 2
scoter sp. 300 300
West Gull WEGU 25 69 94
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
WxGW Gull WExGW 8 8
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 2 2
California Gull CAGU 1 16 17
Heermann's Gull HEEG 16 16
gull sp. 20 20
Caspian Tern CATE 550 272 822
Western Sandpiper WESA 3 3
Red-necked Phalarope RNPH 33 2 35
Common Murre COMU 192 20 212
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 7 7
Rhinocerus Auklet RHAU 1 1
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 1
Turkey Vulture TUVU 1 1
Am Crow AMCR 2 2
Barn Swallow BARS 6 6

Notes: There were at least 11 HY COMMON MURRES on the ocean.
A TURKEY VULTURE is a count first. It appeared to be picking
apart a large sturgeon corpse with help from crows and WESTERN
GULLS. The surprise was the low SOOTY SHEARWATER numbers given
the numbers reported from Longbeach, WA yesterday.

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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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