[obol] Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon on May 02, 2007

[David Bailey]

This report was mailed for David C. Bailey by http://birdnotes.net

Date: May 2, 2007
Location: Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon


High tide and Eva was napping in the car seat, so I decided to drive
over to Wireless Rd. and the near golf course by Miles Crossing to
see what might be resting through the tide change. We were not
disappointed., not least by seeing the many young bovine in the
pastures once Eva awoke. Lots of WHIMBREL and I never get tired of seeing GODWITS.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Canada Goose                        1
Mallard                            20
Double-crested Cormorant           80
Black-bellied Plover               20
Whimbrel                          200 [1] 
Marbled Godwit                      5 [2] 
Short-billed Dowitcher              1
Ring-billed Gull                   10
Herring Gull                        1 [3] 
Thayer's Gull                       1 [4] 
Western Gull                      100
Glaucous-winged Gull               50
Glaucous Gull                       1 [5] 
American Crow                      10
Savannah Sparrow                    5

Footnotes:

[1]  Whimbrel: all roosting in a single flock on the golf course
     south of Miles Crossing and the Lewis and Clark Hwy. 
[2]  Marbled Godwit: with the Whimbrel
[3]  Herring Gull: 2nd cycle (some gray mantle feathers, dipped in
     ink bill.
[4]  Thayer's Gull: adult
[5]  Glaucous Gull: 1st cycle

Total number of species seen: 15