[obol] Seaside update

[David C. Bailey]

Seaside, Clatsop County
9 August 2006

Steve Warner and wife Marilynn found a WHITE-TAILED KITE harrassing a 
RED-TAILED HAWK this evening in the between Stanley Lake and the new 
development under construction on the hill to the east. Later around 
dusk they watched a couple pair of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS hawking over the 
coast range above the Lewis and Clark River just to the north.

No rock pipers of any stripe have shown at The Cove yet, but we've been 
looking. The COMMON MURRES must have nested with fair success on the 
rocks off of Tillamook Head if I judge correctly the 20 plus little 
chick corpses I have found along the Clatsop Beaches between here and 
Sunset Beach Road yesterday and today. About 6 adult MURRES were 
scattered with the hatchlings.

Shorebirds are not really showing in numbers yet. Probably the good 
weather has been reason for those migrating to leapfrog the N. Coast for 
estuaries further south. The juvenals aught to be staging in numbers any 
day now....

Swainson's Thrushes have stopped singing here also.

RED CROSSBILLS are back; I heard two distinctly different call types at 
the South end of town this evening, The high-pitched Sitka type and a 
lower pitched call from undetermined type.

I saw a single hatch-year RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD in my yard yesterday 
(hunting flying insects), but I have had nothing at the hummingbird 
feeder for weeks.

The Black Phoebes have not been seen re-sighted.

David

David C. Bailey
Seaside, Oregon
baileydc at pdx.edu