[obol] Columbia Estuary Report - 10/1/2006

[Mike Patterson]

Columbia Estuary Report - 10/1/2006

There were still two PECTORAL SANPIPERS and a handful of
LEAST SANDPIPERS at Wireless Rd at about 12:30 though they
had moved to the puddle at the SE corner.

The first BLACK SCOTERS I've seen in awhile have returned to
Seaside Cove.  Two tightly grouped rafts of GREEN-WINGED TEAL
were also on the ocean among the many WESTERN GREBES.  RED-NECKED
and HORNED GREBES were also at the Cove.

No CASPIAN TERNS.

About 300 WESTERN GREBES have also returned to Youngs Bay.

Many PURPLISH COPPERS at the Copper Knoll on the Strite property
today along with lingering OCHRE RINGLETS

Birds seen at the Cove (in taxonomic order):

Green-Winged Teal                 120 [1] 
Surf Scoter                        50
White-winged Scoter                20
Black Scoter                        6
Red-throated Loon                   8
Common Loon                         1
Horned Grebe                        1
Red-necked Grebe                    3
Western Grebe                     400
Brown Pelican                       2
Double-crested Cormorant           20
Pelagic Cormorant                   2
Black Turnstone                     2
Heermann's Gull
California Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Murre                        1

Footnotes:

[1]  on the ocean swimming with the grebes

Total number of species seen: 18

-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
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