[obol] Broken pelicans 12/3

[Russ Namitz]

Visited Port Orford where it is much windier than Coos Bay.  Lots of trees 
down over roads, downed powerlines and closed schools along the southern 
coast.

Not many birds, but there were probably 50+ BROWN PELICANS scattered over 
the town of Port Orford...in bushes, on lawns, on the baseball field and 
dead in the road.  About half a dozen birds were dead away from roads (i.e 
not obvious roadkill) or had broken wings.

Bandon
Scoped a couple gull flocks and saw the usual uncommon species like HERRING, 
THAYER'S & BONAPARTE'S.  There was a WHIMBREL with gulls on the Bandon HS 
football field.  Up to 14 BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS were with pelicans, 
rockpipers & gulls in cove east of the south jetty.

Charleston
100+ BROWN PELICANS in a protected cove.  There were 24 BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS 
at Sunset Beach.

It felt like summer traffic with all the people gawking at the ocean to see 
the storm & its big waves.  I had a transformer explode over my car while 
driving under and just missed seeing a traffic light rip off and slam into a 
guy's front grill.

Be careful out there,
Russ Namitz
Coos Bay