[obol] Columbia Estuary Report - 8/28/2006

[Mike Patterson]

Columbia Estuary Report - 8/28/2006

I visited the North Jetty of the Columbia River on Thursday 8/24.
There were at least 50,000 SOOTY SHEARWATERS off the mouth most 
of the north of the state line.  Also lots of COMMON MURRE including 
health numbers of juveniles, a HUMPBACKED WHALE and remarkable 
numbers of HARBOR PORPOISES.

An adult WHITE-TAILED KITE and two juveniles were hunting over
the Clatsop Plains at Reed Ranch on Friday.  I can't say whether 
these are the same birds or different ones than the adult/juveniles 
seen in Seaside/Gearhart (but I'm guessing different).  I flushed a
BARN OWL from some pines near Stanley Lake.

Coxcomb Hill has been fogged in the last 3 mornings in a row
making for less than exciting migrant watching. I saw an
APLODONTIA on Saturday morning.  A small movement of YELLOW
WARBLERS and a WESTERN TANAGER were the best I could find on
Sunday.

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Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
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