A basic plumage YELLOW-BILLED LOON was working the breakers
about 150m out from the viewing platform at parking lot
"C" this morning, South Jetty of the Columbia River. It had
an all yellow bill except for a dark bit along culmen from
about mid-beak to the forehead, a pale face with a dark auricular
patch continuous with the nape and plenty of whitish above
the eye and from in front of the eye through the lores.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Red-throated Loon 12
Common Loon 2
YELLOW-BILLED LOON 1
Western Grebe 40
Sooty Shearwater 10
Brown Pelican 20
Brandt's Cormorant 8
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Mallard
Surf Scoter 5
Black Scoter 15
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake 4
Common Murre 2
Northern Flicker
Hutton's Vireo 1
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch


Total number of species seen: 38

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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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