Todd Thornton, Steve Warner and I decided to combined NAMC duties
with a Big Day. We ended well before dark (1800hr) without the
traditional desperate dash for missed species, but given that,
ended with a respectable 139 species and 93785 individuals. As
always, about 30000 of that total was COMMON MURRES on Ecola Pt.
We also had phenomenal shorebird numbers mostly WESTERN SANDPIPERS
and DUNLIN. We also saw a great many RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and
WHIMBREL

The most annoying miss... Least Sandpiper
Also missed: Wrentit, Bushtit, Western Tanager

We began the day at 0400hr on Saddle Mountain with 5 species of
owl. Notable species follow:

Saddle Mt
Great-horned Owl
BARRED OWL
Western Screech Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Blue Grouse
Hammond's Flycatcher
Varied Thrush
Hermit Warbler

Haystack Rock/Ecola St Pk
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN (2)
Harlequin Duck
Tufted Puffin

Seaside Cove
Glaucous Gull

Youngs Bay
Marbled Godwit
FRANKLIN'S GULL (2)

Wireless Rd
WESTERN KINGBIRD

Jewell Meadows
WILD TURKEY

Nicolai Mt
American Kestrel (at last year's nest site)
Gray Jay
Western Bluebird

South Jetty/Trestle Bay
BROWN PELICAN (4)
Red Knot
Parasitic Jaeger
Arctic Tern (2)
BULLOCK'S ORIOLE

--
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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