Subject: Leadbetter Pt - 7/13/2004
Date: Jul 13 17:38:08 2004
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


I hiked the yellow and blue trails around Leadbetter Pt
this morning arriving at around 10:00 on an incoming low
tide. There were no shorebirds on the bay side. Though
there were quite a few RING-BILLED GULLS including a hatch-
year juvenile, presumably from the Miller Island colony.

No SNOWY PLOVER, probably due in part to presence of a family
picnicking in the off limits plover zone. Lots of BROWN
PELICANS and HEERMANN'S GULLS, also a few CALIFORNIA GULLS.
Only a couple smallish flocks of WESTERN SANDPIPERS.

Lots of very nearshore feeding: COMMON LOON, BRANDT'S and
DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, COMMON MURRES. HARBOR PORPOISE
easily seen just beyond breakers from dune.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Common Loon
Brown Pelican [1]
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Surf Scoter
Western Sandpiper [2]
Heermann's Gull [3]
Ring-billed Gull [4]
California Gull [5]
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Murre [6]
Northern Flicker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hutton's Vireo
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco

Footnotes:

[1] 30+ sitting on beach
[2] two moderately sized flocks on beach 100+ in total
[3] many
[4] on the bay side including 1 hatch-year
[5] 10-12
[6] a few feeding beyond breakers; large flocks heading north

Total number of species seen: 36

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