Todd Thornton and I went out for high tide at the South Jetty
of the Columbia River. The wind was blowing S at 20kt with gusts
to 25kt and intermittant light rain. The wind drove the expected
8.3ft tide much higher.

Shorebird count:
Semipalmated Plover 5
Marbled Godwit 1
Whimbrel 27
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Wandering Tattler 1
Surfbird 5
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Black Turnstone 1
Western Sandpiper 650
Least Sandpiper 75
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 1

A LONG-BILLED CURLEW with a broken upper mandible has been hanging
out at the Gearhart Golf Course for the past couple days.

--
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