[obol] Re: Curry Manx Shearwater; Newport Long-tailed Duck; Elegant Terns in 4 counties
- From: Nels Nelson <nelsnelson7@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OBOL <OBOL@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:40:58 -0700
I'd like to second (or third) LInda and Jay's comments. Super convention
that I almost didn't attend. I didn't sign up until late, then got to
thinking - what might I miss if I DON'T attend. Sure glad I did - NINE
'Lifer's' and 14 'year' birds is what I'd have missed IF I hadn't
attended. Plus, I'd have missed getting to meet many of the great birders
whose names I've seen on OBOL but had never met.
Happy Birder in Hillsboro,
Nels
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jay Withgott <withgott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I second Linda Fink's assessment: The OBA meeting in Bandon was a rousing
> success. Thank you, Harv, Pam, Tim, Russ, Roy, Dan, and everyone else for
> a great weekend.
>
> On Sunday morning I did a seawatch at Cape Blanco, Curry County, where I
> was able to find a windless spot on the south side with the morning sun
> behind me for great viewing conditions. I was rewarded with a MANX
> SHEARWATER, my first from shore on the West Coast after many years of
> seawatching. A nearby Sooty Shearwater and Common Terns provided good size
> comparisons for this bird, and more details are with the full checklist on
> eBird: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19982231.
>
> My day ended with a smaller bang but one perhaps even more surprising: An
> immature LONG-TAILED DUCK was at the marina viewed from the parking lot of
> the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, at dusk. I'll put a photo on
> eBird. A very early arrival!
>
> In between these endpoints I made my way up the coast trying to find
> Elegant Terns in as many counties as I could. Common Terns turned out to
> be numerous as well. Results:
>
> CURRY:
> 5 Elegant Terns from Cape Blanco seawatch, heading north
> 35 Common/Arctic (likely Common) Terns from Cape Blanco seawatch, heading
> north
>
> COOS:
> 4 Elegant Terns off the jetty at Bandon
> 9 Elegant Terns from the causeway (Jordan Cove Rd) north of Coos Bay that
> leads off 101 to the North Spit.
> 1 Common Tern from this same causeway.
> 2 Terns that looked at a distance like Forster's but were probably
> Commons, from this same causeway.
>
> DOUGLAS:
> (OK, I'm cheating; this was on 26 Sept. on the way south):
> 93 Elegant Terns at Winchester Bay
> 1 Common Tern at Winchester Bay
>
> LANE:
> 2 Elegant Terns at the mouth of the Siuslaw River, viewed from end of
> South Jetty Road, flying and perched on the rocks nearer the North Jetty
> Road. (However, when perched I'm not sure they would have been visible from
> the North Jetty Rd.)
> 7 Common Terns also here at the mouth of the Siuslaw with the Elegants.
> One adult was still in breeding plumage.
>
> LINCOLN:
> 49 Tern sp. flying very far out to the NW north of the North Jetty at
> Newport, viewed from the South Jetty just before sunset. I could see no
> real field marks but they appeared to be Elegants. However, I then got on
> about 12 terns somewhat closer in that were pretty clearly Common Terns, so
> this made me doubt the ID of the original ones, which were disappearing in
> the distance by this time. So I'm not sure what the majority were. I
> found no terns at all in the channel or in the bay.
>
>
> There was also 1 RED-NECKED GREBE at the mouth of the Siuslaw and an
> astonishing total of 44 MARBLED MURRELETS off the jetties at Bandon. 44
> was my highest exact count, but it was becoming wavy enough that I'm sure I
> missed some and that there were actually more.
>
> Jay Withgott
> Portland
>
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