[obol] Sunset Beach

[Lee and Lori Cain]

I drove north on Clatsop Beach, at about 1530 hrs today from Del Rey to the
Sunset entrance.
Highlights were:

2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
500 SANDERLINGS
2 DUNLIN
~500 BROWN PELICANS (feeding flock about 1/2 mile off shore)
1 BLUE-WINGED TEAL (flying south)
15 GREEN-WINGED TEAL (flying south)
1 NORTHERN HARRIER
several COMMON LOONS

Also 1 pale-billed loon and 2 possible Common or Arctic Terns; right when I
was about to glass them a vehicle parks in directly front of my bins and
open window and asks "how far is it to where you came onto the beach?   When
they had pulled away, so had these possibles...


Lee Cain
Aquatic Biology/Science
Astoria High School
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