[obol] [Fwd: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon on May 03, 2008]

[David Bailey]

Numbers over a hundred are estimates. There was noticeable northward 
movement of shorebirds. I even saw a flock of WESTERN SANDPIPERS flying 
over downtown Gearhart. I saw no beached birds.

David

David C. Bailey
Seaside & Florence, Oregon

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Subject: 	Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon on May 03, 2008
Date: 	Sat, 03 May 2008 21:19:37 GMT
From: 	baileydc at pdx.edu
To: 	baileydc at pdx.edu



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Date: May 3, 2008
Location: Clatsop Beaches, Clatsop County, Oregon

Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h gusting to: 12-19 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 30%
Precipitation: none

Shorebird survey by automobile: S. Camp Rilea to Gearhart auto access
at 1400.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)            10
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)                           20
Sanderling (Calidris alba)                            400
Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)                    300
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)                               10
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)                      30
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)                            4

Total number of species seen: 7