Sunset Beach, Clatsop County, Oregon
November 15, 2001 1010-1050hr
Temperature: 55?F
Wind direction: S 20-28 km/h
rain

I walked the beach north from Sunset Beach access for
about 1km in light rain. The ocean is running very high
so there's not much beach. A flock of 7 SNOW BUNTINGS
was working the beach and the dune edge about .5km into
my walk. I flushed a RUFFED GROUSE on the jeep trail
coming back.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Peregrine Falcon 1 [1]
Ruffed Grouse 1 [2]
Sanderling 100
Dunlin 250
Western Gull 5
Northern Flicker 3
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Winter Wren 4
Song Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6
SNOW BUNTING 7 [3]

Footnotes:

[1] took a run at the shorebirds
[2] on jeep trail
[3] on the beach at about 500m north

Total number of species seen: 13

--
Mike Patterson When I despair, I remember
Astoria, OR that all through history
celata at pacifier.com the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers,
and for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end they always fall.
Think of it...always.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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