Ecola State Park 2/24/2002

The COMMON MURRES are now staging off the rocks at Ecola
State Park. About 20% are stilll in basic plumage.

A FORK-TAILED STORM-PETREL was flying around just past the
big rock from Ecola Point. Most storm-petrel sightings from
the north Oregon coast (not counting pelagic boat trips) fall
into a window from late-February to early-April.

Aside from the storm-petrel and all the murres, it was pretty
quiet on the ocean.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Pacific Loon 1
Western Grebe 6
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 1 [1]
Brandt's Cormorant 1
Pelagic Cormorant 1
White-winged Scoter 5
Bald Eagle 1
Western Gull 50
Glaucous-winged Gull 6
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull 2
Common Murre 6700
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch

Footnotes:

[1] tracked by spotting scope for about 1 minute

Total number of species seen: 22

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

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