Subject: SJCR Ruff still presents this morning
Date: Sep 2 13:10:21 2000
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


We took our first Saturday of the month field trip today
beginning on Coxcomb Hill and ending at the South Jetty of
the Columbia River.

Coxcomb Hill was very quiet with a very few species.

We arrived at the SJCR to find a PRAIRIE FALCON chasing
the RUFF reported yesterday. The RUFF flew out to the river
beach then back to the parking lot C ponds and finally flew
off to Trestle Bay. We relocated it at the viewing bunker
off parking lot D with smaller shorebirds. It was still
there as of 1200hr.

A LONG-TAILED JAEGER was seen from the viewing platform being
chased by a PARASITIC JAEGER. The are two Sardine seiners that
are attracting SOOTY SHEARWATERS. They were just far enough
out to make identification of other things difficult.

Shorebird List for 9/2/2000 - Trestle Bay and SJCR
golden-plover sp. 1
Semipalmated Plover 35
Killdeer 1
Black Turnstone 27
Surfbird 1
RUFF 1
Western Sandpiper 300
Least Sandpiper 200
Baird's Sandpiper 2
Sanderling 5
Red-necked Phalarope 1

--
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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