[obol] N. Coast update & Pacifc O. Puffin "Slam Grande; " double entendre

[David Bailey]

Four posts to the birdnotes database follow. Lots of dead puffins on the 
N. Clatsop Beaches.

David

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

> This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net
>  
> Date: March 10, 2007
> Location: Necanicum River Estuary, Clatsop County, Oregon
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
>  
> Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
> Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)                   1
> Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)                         30
> Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)                   1
> Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)                2
> Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)                2
> Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)               1
> Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus)
> Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)                       1
> Mew Gull (Larus canus)                                150
> California Gull (Larus californicus)                    5
> Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)                         5
> Thayer's Gull (Larus thayeri)                           5
> Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)                      20
> Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)               20
> Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)                       2 [1] 
> Glaucous-winged x Western Gull (Larus glaucescens x occidentalis) 50
> American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)                  20
>  
> Footnotes:
>  
> [1]  Glaucous Gull: one adult and one first winter plumage
>  
> Total number of species seen: 18
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>  
> This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net
>  
> Date: March 9, 2007
> Location: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon
>  
>  
> Peter Iredale shipwreck to Gearhart: auto survey.
>  
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
>  
> Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)                   2
> Sanderling (Calidris alba)                           1500
> Dunlin (Calidris alpina)                             1000
> Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
> Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
> Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)
> Glaucous-winged x Western Gull (Larus glaucescens x occidentalis)
> Common Raven (Corvus corax)                             4
>  
> Total number of species seen: 8
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> This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net
> Date: March 9, 2007
> Location: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon
> Precipitation: drizzle
>  
> Sunset Beach auto access south to Gearhart auto access: driving
> survey for wrecked birds by searching wrack line and beach.
>  
> All wrecked birds were detected north of the Del Rey auto access;
> while none were detected south to Gearhart access.
>  
> Note: see birdnotes database entry for same day and location, but
> points north from Sunset Beach to Peter Iredale shipwreck.
>  
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
>  
> Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)                    1
> Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens)                1 [1] 
> Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)               6 [2] 
>  
> Footnotes:
> [1]  Glaucous-winged Gull: adult wings
> [2]  Rhinoceros Auklet: All fairly recently wrecked birds
>  
> Total number of species seen: 3
> ====================================================================
> This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net
> Date: March 9, 2007
> Location: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon
> Precipitation: drizzle
>  
> Peter Iredale auto access from Fort Stevens State Park to Sunset
> Beach access--auto survey of wrack line and beach for wrecked birds.
> I was hoping to find a live rare bird, but only found dead ones.
>  
> See other birdnotes database entry for same day and location, but for
> Sunset Beach access south to Gearhart.
>  
> Birds seen (in taxonomic order):
> Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)                1 [1] 
> Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)                    3
> Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)         1 [2] 
> Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)                       1 [3] 
> Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)               8 [4] 
> Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata)                  3 [5] 
> Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)                     2 [6] 
>  
> Footnotes:
> [1]  Hooded Merganser: headless female; being scavenged by Common
>      Ravens; on the side of the foredune--cause of death unknown
> [2]  Short-tailed Shearwater: carcass a bit rank, but whole and low
>      in wrack line
> [3]  Western Gull: immature wing
> [4]  Rhinoceros Auklet: most very recently wrecked; two birds
>      completely whole and unscavenged; one bird in rigger mortise 
> [5]  Horned Puffin: one bird a couple of weeks wrecked and headless,
>      the others were nearly whole, but underparts scavenged; all AHY
>      birds
> [6]  Tufted Puffin: recently wrecked,whole AHY birds.
>  
> Total number of species seen: 7