Jetty Count for
the South Jetty of the Columbia River, Clatsop Co., OR
28 Oct 2001 0815-0900hr

Tide:high
Weather: Wind E 5-10; Temp 50F

Method: 45 min station count from jetty 500m west of 3 rocks
SJCR using 20x60 Bushnell spotting scope and 8x50 Bushnell
binoculars. Birds were sorted as to flyby, sitting on beach, sitting
on ocean or sitting on river.

Fly Ocean Beach total
Common Loon COLO 4 4
Pacific Loon PALO 2 5 7
RT Loon RTLO 7 7
loon sp. 100 100
West Grebe WEGR 26 26
Red-necked Grebe RNGR 1 1
Sooty Shearwater SOSH 20000 20000
Short-tailed Shearwater STSH 3 3
Brandt's Cormorant BRCO 260 260
Pelagic Cormorant PECO 3 3
DC Cormorant DCCO 12 12
Brown Pelican BRPE 200 50 240 490
Bufflehead BUFF 8 8
Greater Scaup GRSC 8 8
Surf Scoter SUSC 40 500 540
White-wing Scoter WWSC 7 7
Black Scoter BLSC 7 7
Parasitic Jaeger PAJA 1 1
West Gull WEGU 30 30
GW Gull GWGU 10 10
California Gull CAGU 50 50
Heermann's Gull HEEG 40 40
Black-legged Kittiwake BLKI 2 2
gull sp. 200 200
Semi Plover SEPL 12 12
Red Knot REKN 1 1
Least Sandpiper LESA 20 20
Common Murre COMU 200 150 350
Marbled Murrelet MAMU 2 2
Savanna Sparrow SAVS 1 1

Notes: It was bright and sunny with an east wind today, this created a
heat shimmer that got in the way of some identifications. There were
still
big SOOTY SHEARWATER numbers in fairly close this morning. The BROWN
PELICAN
numbers are also still phenomenal with nearly 200 sitting on the jetty
(sitting on the jetty is fairly unusual). The unidentified loons were
either
PACIFIC or RED-THOATED, but moving far enough out that heat shimmer was
interferring with identification. A single RED KNOT was with LEAST SANDPIPERS
on the beach.

--
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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