[obol] Anomalous fulmar spike on Gearhart Beach

[Mike Patterson]

I walked a big chunk of Gearhart Beach Saturday after being shown
a photo taken with a cell phone that looked like it could have 
been a dead Long-tailed Jaeger.  I was unable to find a definitive
match to the picture I was shown and the photographer did not
think the hatch-year Western Gull I found was the same bird that
was in his photo.

More unusual were the 12 dead NORTHERN FULMARS I found in the .5km 
stretch I covered.  This seems like a lot of fulmars for September
All appeared to be recently deposited, 11 were gray-phase, 1 white-
phase.

Also found:
 Brandt's Cormorant   1
 Western Gull         1
 California Gull      2
 Common Murre         2
  
-- 
Mike Patterson               
Astoria, OR                    
celata at pacifier.com  
 
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