[obol] Rock Sandpiper still at The Cove (Seaside)

[David Bailey]

I forgot to mention that as usual, there were half a dozen HARLEQUIN 
DUCKS out near first point in the near surf.

David Bailey wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     The Cove (Seaside), Clatsop County, Oregon on March 07, 2007
> Date:     Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:24:30 GMT
> From:     baileydc at pdx.edu
> To:     baileydc at pdx.edu
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> This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net
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> Date: March 7, 2007
> Location: The Cove (Seaside), Clatsop County, Oregon
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> Prevailing wind speed: 1-5 km/h gusting to: 6-11 km/h
> Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 90%
> Precipitation: drizzle
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> I stopped briefly at Sawyer Park and the road by the Lanai Motel on
> my way back through town this afternoon just before a  squall was
> about to come through (I had left the rain on the south side of
> Tillamook Head minutes before). The tide was beginning to ebb, but it
> was doing so slowly due to the powerful storm surge.
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> The single ROCK SANDPIPER is still with the SURFBIRDS and BLACK
> TURNSTONES.
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> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
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> Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
> Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
> Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)                      1
> Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
> Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)        1
> Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus)             1
> Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)               20
> Surfbird (Aphriza virgata)                             50
> Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)                   1 [1] Mew Gull 
> (Larus canus)
> Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
> Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)
> Glaucous-winged x Western Gull (Larus glaucescens x occidentalis)
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> Footnotes:
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> [1]  Rock Sandpiper: with the flock of SURFBIRDS AND TURNSTONES near
>     the NE end of Sawyer Park on the rocks near the surf.
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> Total number of species seen: 13
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