Subject: Necanicum River Estuary, Clatsop County, Oregon on January 11, 2001
Date: Jan 11 18:24:56 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


Part of the Snowy Plover Survey covering Little Beach and Gearhart
Beach 0920-1020 hr with Doug Ray.

We did not find Snowy Plovers, but we did find tracks which probably
belong to a plover.

Temperature: 45?F
Wind direction: SE
Prevailing wind speed: 12-19 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 40%
Precipitation: none

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Great Blue Heron 1
Surf Scoter 1
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Sanderling 355
Least Sandpiper 1 [1]
Dunlin 18
Mew Gull 40
Western Gull 30
Glaucous-winged Gull 10
Unidentified gull 40
American Crow 30
Winter Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2

Footnotes:

[1] heard only

Total number of species seen: 14

Also found were 7 dead NORTHERN FULMAR, 1 dead WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
and 1 dead WESTERN GULL.

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