Subject: [Fwd: Yellow-billed Loon at SJCR - 10/18/2001]
Date: Oct 18 20:43:25 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com




Moria and Todd wrote:
>
> The YELLOW-BILLED LOON was still present at 1600hrs. It was hanging with a
> Common Loon which further helped in identification...
>
> Todd Thornton
> mandt at seasurf.net
> Astoria, OR
>
> ----------
> >From: Mike Patterson <celata at PACIFIER.COM>
> >To: Multiple recipients of list OBOL <OBOL at BOBO.NWS.ORST.EDU>
> >Subject: Yellow-billed Loon at SJCR - 10/18/2001
> >Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2001, 12:55 PM
> >
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
> > http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html
> >

--
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

http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters/bird/bird.html