Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
28 May 2000 0850-0920hr

Tide:in coming
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind SW 10-15; Temp 55F

Method: 30 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 11 1 12
loon sp. 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 35 7 42
DC Cormorant DCCO 100 100
Brown Pelican BRPE 5 5
Surf Scoter SUSC 18 1 19
White-wing Scoter WWSC 2 1 3
Black Scoter BLSC 2 2
West Gull WEGU 30 30
GW Gull GWGU 3 3
gull sp. 200 200
Caspian Tern CATE 500 500
Common Murre COMU 1 1
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 2
Bald Eagle BAEA 1 1
Purple Martin PUMA 1 1

Notes: There were very rough seas and a pretty stiff breeze
for this morning's count. BROWN PELICANS have returned to
the SJCR. There was very little sitting on the ocean. Many
CASPIAN TERNS in the air; none on the beach.

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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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