Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
8 July 2000 1010-1110hr

Tide:low
Weather: clear
Wind NW 10; Temp 60F


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
Common Loon COLO 1 1
Pacific Loon PALO 1 1
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 97 40 1 138
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 4 5
DC Cormorant DCCO 8 1 9
Brown Pelican BRPE 29 4 4 37
Brant BRAN 1 1
Surf Scoter SUSC 73 73
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 3 4
West Gull WEGU 20 20 40
GW Gull GWGU 1 1 2
WxGW Gull WExGW 2 5 7
Ring-billed Gull RBGU 1 4 5
California Gull CAGU 4 2 6
Mew Gull MEGU 1 1
Heermann's Gull HEEG 30 20 50
gull sp. 100 100 200
Caspian Tern CATE 560 11 571
Western Sandpiper WESA 1 1
Common Murre COMU 13 2 15
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 1 2 3
Bald Eagle BAEA 2 2
Am Crow AMCR 1 1
Barn Swallow BARS 3 3

Notes: An MEW GULL sporting (if it weren't for the time of year)
what I would have called 2nd winter plumage was a big surprise.
There was very little COMMON MURRE activity off the jetty. I'm
taking that to be a good sign.

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


--
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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