[obol] Seaside: Clatsop Co. update

[David Bailey]

Not much going on migration-wise that I have detected in Seaside, 
Clatsop County lately. A dozen WHIMBREL on Sunset Beach along with a few 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. SANDERLING numbers are way down to a couple 
hundred, but perhaps there are more up north of Sunset Beach and that 
goes for the Dunlin I am not detecting also.

RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS continue to migrate through and I still am detecting 
mostly males, though they are the more easily detectable with their wing 
trilling.

The surf has been up and the waves near shore are white-capped though 
they are actually muddy-brown with a diatom or algal bloom from The Cove 
north to at least Sunset Beach. I am detecting very few birds offshore.

Rainy and cold now, but I am sure things will pick up soon. Spring 
migration always whizzes by during the last week of April and first two 
weeks of May--for the bulk of the shorebirds that is.

Oh, only a couple BLACK TURNSTONE remain at The Cove. I am still hoping 
for another flock to show up and stage there for a while as they did 
when the lucistic Surfbird showed up late last April.

CASPIAN TERNS are abundant and a yard bird now. BUFFLEHEAD still 
dominate among waterfowl species in the Necanicum river and estuary.

David

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