Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
11 Aug 2001 0950-1050hr

Tide:low
Weather: Wind NW 5-10; Temp 60F

Method: .1 hour station count from jetty 500m west of 3 rocks
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 14 14
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 600 600
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 46 6 52
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 5 7 12
DC Cormorant DCCO 3 1 4
Brown Pelican BRPE 30 19 49
Surf Scoter SUSC 32 40 72
White-wing Scoter WWSC 3 2 5
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
jaeger sp 2 2
West Gull WEGU 40 15 60 115
GW Gull GWGU 1 1
California Gull CAGU 30 4 72 106
Heermann's Gull HEEG 35 2 31 68
Blk-leg Kittiwake BLKI 1 1
gull sp. 200 100 200 500
Caspian Tern CATE 300 137 437
Sanderling SAND 4 4
Common Murre COMU 100 24 124
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 2 1 3
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 9 1 10
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 1

Notes: SOOTY SHEARWATERS were going by at between 5 and 20 birds
per minute. I spent extra time watching the shearwaters looking
for other species with no success. The 2 unidentified jaegers
were probably PARASITIC JAEGERS, but far enough out that I chose
to leave them generic. The BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was an adult.

--
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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