Seawatch Count for
Ecola Point,Ecola State Park, Clatsop Co., OR
14 Oct 2000 - 0730 to 0800

Tide: low
Weather: mostly cloudy
Wind SW at 5mph; Temp 50F

Method: 30 minute (timed) station count from observation deck at Ecola
Point using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting rocks, sitting
on ocean.

flyby ocean rocks total
Pacific Loon PALO 13 13
RT Loon RTLO 3 3
Common Loon COLO 1 1 2
Western Grebe WEGR 8 8
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 2 2
Brown Pelican BRPE 32 19 51
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 140 2 142
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 1 6 7
GW Teal GWTE 13 13
N Pintail NOPI 6 6
Harlequin Duck HADU 2 2
Surf Scoter SUSC 2 9 11
White-wing Scoter WWSC 11 1 12
West Gull WEGU 8 22 30
California Gull CAGU 2 2
Black-leg Kittiwake BLKI 2 2
Common Murre COMU 1 1
Am Crow AMCR 1 1

NOTES:

--
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
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html