[obol] Pacific Golden-Plover: Clatsop Beach

[David Bailey]

14 Sept. 2006--afternoon high tide
1 mile or less north of Sunset Beach auto access: Clatsop Beach: Clatsop Co.

PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER   juvenal.

Otherwise, the beach from Gearhart to the wreck of the Peter Iredale was 
nearly devoid of shorebirds (50 SANDERLINGS; 10 WESTERN SANDPIPERS). I 
looked for but saw zero shorebirds on the Necanicum Estuary just before 
high tide. A couple LEAST SANDPIPERS were all I found at the South Jetty 
of the Columbia at high tide this evening. SOOTY SHEARWATERS continue to 
be conspicuous offshore along the beaches.

David

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

I don't usually end in quotes, but given recent circumstances I will 
share the following:

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society
but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened
enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the
remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion
by education.  This is the true corrective of abuses of
constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis,
1820.