Moria and Todd wrote:
>
> I walked to the river mouth to do some searbirding. A large swarm of
> shearwaters were circling near the rivershore. I had the following seabirds
> SOOTY SHEARWATER -50,000'ISH
> PINK-FOOTED SHEAREWATER -2
> BULLER'S SHEARWATER - 1
>
> There were also two PARASITIC JAEGERS harassing the California Gulls.
>
> I also had an interesting shorebird land near (at the shorebird Ponds at
> "C") me and hunker down in the salicornia. It as largish, about 8 inches,
> had a shortish bill, wide prominent supercillium, white eye ring, rufuous
> cap, reddish ear coverts and lores, thin streaking on the neck. I could only
> view the head of the bird, it never got in a position for me to see the
> breast. I watched the bird for 1 minute when it flew to the north. Again, I
> could not see the breat but the uppertai coverts seemed to show dark shaft
> streaking.. The proverbial one that got away....
>
> Other shorebird #s were sparse. Two Western SANDPIPERS and seven LEAST
> SANDPIPERS.
>
> On the home front I had a tan morph WHITE-THROATED SPARROW in the
> neighborhood.
>
> Todd Thornton
> mandt at seasurf.net
> Astoria, OR

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