Before I headed back to Yakima from the WOS conference in Kelso I spent the early morning period out at the coast at Fort Canby and the North Jetty of the Columbia River doing a seawatch. Overall fairly quite. I started at 7:40 and did one hour. For the first 30 minutes the main highlight was a single Parasitic Jaeger harassing a California Gull and a Marbled Murrelet. There was some movement of Surf and White-winged Scoters and a few Pacific Loons but overall not lots of movement. In total for the hour only about 8-10 Sooty Shearwaters were observed. At 8:15 I was watching a Pacific Loon cruise by the jetty heading south when a single MANX Shearwater cruised in front of it, flying south towards the Oregon side of the mouth of the Columbia. The bird was about 300 meters off the end of the Jetty and did not return in the remainder of my watch. I found Jim Dazenbaker's WOS group at the North Lighthouse later and alerted them to the sighting, don't know if they had any success or not.

The only rock shorebirds I could find were one Wandering Tattler on the jetty and a small group of Black Turnstone flew by the jetty.

Scott Downes
downess at charter.net
Yakima WA