Subject: Columbia Estuary CBC preliminary results
Date: Dec 17 18:03:38 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


We had phenomenal weather for the Columbia Estuary Count with
sunny skies and temperatures in the low 50's.

The unofficial count 129, highlights include:
Northern Fulmar
Short-tailed Shearwater
Blue-winged Teal
Snowy Owl
Nashville Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lapland Longspur

The BLUE-WINGED TEAL was on the Astoria Sewage Ponds.

Both SNOWY OWLS were on the river beach at parking lot C. One
was in the middle of the beach the other was in the dunes just
up from the beach.

The NASHVILLE WARBLER is coming to a feeder in Astoria along
with two ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. Another yellow warbler with
white undertail coverts was seen on Astoria Airport Rd. (most
probably also a Nashville, but not well seen).

The CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was on King Av near the shorebird pond.

A BROWN PELICAN was at Hammond Boat basin yesterday, but not
relocated today.

I'm going out to see if I can hoot up and even 130....

--
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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