[obol] Census Count: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon on October 04, 2006

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This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net

Date: October 4, 2006
Location: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon


Drove the beach from Gearhart to the South Jetty of the Columbia
River looking for shorebirds and gulls. Not many birds on the beach.
Best bird was a beautiful juvenile PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER just north
of the Del Rey auto access.

Noticeable by their ABSENCE were CASPIAN TERNS. 

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Brown Pelican                      20
Black-bellied Plover                3
Pacific Golden-Plover               1 [1] 
Sanderling                        300
Heermann's Gull                   200
California Gull                   300
Herring Gull                        5
Western Gull                       30
Glaucous-winged Gull               20
Glaucous-winged x Western Gull
Common Murre                        1
Common Raven                        4

Footnotes:

[1]  Pacific Golden-Plover: juvenile. I focused on observing the
     plumage and noticed it showed a strong capped appearance, a
     stron auricular spot, a white throat strongly set off by the
     breast pluage creating a constrasting line. There was also
     contrast between the darker breast and lighter belly giving a
     hooded look suggesting Pectoral Sandpiper. The undertail coverts
     were unmarked white. Id was based on medium small bill, golden
     wash to supercilium, large head, primary projection and primary
     extension short as expected for this species. 

Total number of species seen: 12