Necanicum River Estuary, Clatsop County, Oregon
July 31, 2001, 1000-1130hr

Things were a bit slower at the Necanicum today probably
due to the presence of the resident BALD EAGLE pair sitting
on the south flats.

I found 1 juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER and an adult in nearly
complete basic plumage among there more ragged transitional
Westerns.

Shorebird count:
Black-bellied Plover 3
Semipalmated Plover 216
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Whimbrel 1
Marbled Godwit 5
Sanderling 72
Western Sandpiper 26
Least Sandpiper 12

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Brandt's Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 2
Heermann's Gull 6
Ring-billed Gull 3
California Gull 40
Western Gull 15
Glaucous-winged Gull 2
Caspian Tern 244
Common Murre
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 2
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
European Starling
White-crowned Sparrow
House Finch

Total number of species seen: 29

--
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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