Columbia Estuary Report - 5/3/2001

A bright adult PARASITIC JAEGER was at SJCR this afternoon.
There were several 100 SOOTY SHEARWATERS swirling around
a fishing boat. About 150 BRANT flew by in the 10mins I spent
there. A WANDERING TATTLER was flying with one group of
Brant.

Shorebirds included:
Wireless Rd
Whimbrel 117
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Common Snipe 1

Lewis and Clark Pond
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
SOLITARY SANDPIPER 1
Least Sandpiper 12

Parking lot D, Ft Stevens
Semipalmated Plover 28
Western Sandpiper 87
Least Sandpiper 10
Sanderling 20
Dunlin 40

Youngs Bay
calidris sp (probably Western Sandpiper) 5000
Whimbrel 25

--
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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