Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
15 July 2000 1000-1100hr

Tide:in coming
Weather: clear
Wind NW 5-10; 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
Pacific Loon PALO 5 22 27
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 25 30 55
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 2 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 55 55
Brown Pelican BRPE 98 23 1 3 125
Surf Scoter SUSC 2 200 202
White-wing Scoter WWSC 1 3 4
West Gull WEGU 50 5 9 64
GW Gull GWGU 3 2 5
WxGW Gull WExGW 16 3 19
California Gull CAGU 2 2
Heermann's Gull HEEG 170 170
gull sp. 20 30 75 125
Caspian Tern CATE 1500 95 1595
Western Sandpiper WESA 25 25
Common Murre COMU 822 3 825
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 6 1 9
Osprey OSPR 1 1
Am Crow AMCR 1 1

Notes: An OSPREY spent the entire watch period sitting on a log on
the river beach eating something. This is the first beach sitting
Osprey I have encountered. COMMON MURRE flight numbers are on the
rise; no juveniles, yet. While walking back along the jetty after the
count period seven GREAT BLUE HERONS, all apparently hatch year birds,
flew in and landed on the upper beach.

--
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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