Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
22 Jul 2001 0925-1050hr

Tide:low
Weather: Wind WNW 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 1 1
RT Loon RTLO 1 1
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 50 300 350
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 2 4 6
DC Cormorant DCCO 24 24
Brown Pelican BRPE 21 15 28 64
White-wing Scoter WWSC 20 20
West Gull WEGU 75 40 115
California Gull CAGU 120 120
Heermann's Gull HEEG 46 5 56 107
gull sp. 100 100 200 400
Caspian Tern CATE 1000 546 1546
Black Turnstone BLTU 1 1
Wandering Tattler WATA 3 3
Common Murre COMU 600 10000 10600
Pigeon Guillemot PIGU 3 8 4 15
Rhinoceros Auklet RHAU 1 1
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 1 2 3
Am Crow AMCR 1 1
Barn Swallow BARS 1 1

also seen:
Harbor Porpoise
California Sealion
Steller's Sealion

Notes: There was a huge feeding flock of COMMON MURRES at about
1km out. I saw at least 2 juvenile murres with adults closer in.
BROWN PELICAN have finally started to get up to expected
summer numbers. Attendent HEERMANN'S GULL numbers are up as well.

On the way into parking lot C I saw an adult female RING-NECKED
PHEASANT with a juvenile as well as two BRUSH RABBITS one of
which appeared to be a youngster.

--
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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