Phil Pickering has been doing almost daily seawatches
from Boiler Bay on the central Oregon Coast. Today
he reported about 5000. I saw at least 30 from the
South Jetty of the Columbia River this morning. Phil
has also been seen higher than usual near shore numbers
of Buller's and Pink-footed Shearwaters.

I'm thinking of doing a dead bird walk tomorrow.

Folks who do COASST walks may want to chip in summaries
of their data. And keep an eye open for gadflies and
stray northern alcids....


Michael Donahue wrote:
>
> This unusual influx of fulmars inshore is certainly great for birders, but I
> want to remind folks that it's probably not so great for the fulmars. These
> are birds that are adapted for life on the ocean. This influx into the sound
> (the south sound at that!) is concurrent with numbers of dead and dying
> fulmars being reported on the ocean beaches in Washington and California
> (where they also found dead birds out in Monterey Bay, too) over the last
> month. (I don't know what's going on on the ocean beaches in Oregon, but I
> assume they've got dead and dying fulmars, too.)
>
> Mike Donahue
> Seattle

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