Subject: Pacific County, Wash
Date: Aug 20 18:05:55 2001
From: Lee & Lori Cain - lcain at seasurf.net


OBOLERS:

While at a workshop at Sea Resources Hatchery, I noted the following
birds. Part of the workshop involved kayaking the lower Chinook River:

Date: August 20, 2001
Location: Pacific County, Washington

Wind direction: SE
Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 10%
Precipitation: none

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Greater Scaup
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon [1]
Virginia Rail
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Winter Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
House Finch
Red Crossbill
American Goldfinch

Footnotes:

[1] One adult flushed from cliff face of rock quarry where PEFA were
observed nesting two years previous.

Total number of species seen: 32

On the way home, I stopped very briefly at the rocky shoreline in Fort
Columbia State Park at 1430 hrs, also in Pacific County, Washington:

Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Turkey Vulture
Spotted Sandpiper [1]
California Gull
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Belted Kingfisher [2]

Footnotes:

[1] 2 birds, a non-breeder on the rocks, and a breeding plumage
foraging on the sandy beach between the rocks
[2] a pair

Lee Cain
Summer: lcain at seasurf.net
School: lcain at astoria.k12.or.us
Instructor, Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
Astoria OR 97103 503-325-3911 vm 216