[obol] Lincoln Co. storm birding

From: "Wayne Hoffman" <whoffman@xxxxxxxx>
To: "OBOL" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:44:34 -0700
Hi - 

 

I spent the morning (till 1:15 PM) birding Yaquina Bay and Boiler Bay.
Highlights below:

 

Yaquina Bay South Jetty:  8:05 - 8:20

Red Phalarope                                                  2  on
rainwater pool

Cackling Goose                                                 6  all imm.?
Maybe 2 Aleutians, others Taverners?

 

 

Boiler Bay seawatch  8:50 to 9:58  Weather windy, primarily from east,
shower at end

Joined by Mark Eliott

 

Pacific Loon                                                     700  S
10-20/min early, then tailed off

Red-throated Loon                                      50    S

Common Loon                                               1    on water

Western Grebe                                             12 on water

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel                            2  close in, flying

Brown Pelican                                                250 S

Green-winged Teal                                      1  S

Ring-necked Duck                                        2  S  drakes

Surf Scoter                                                       300  S

White-winged Scoter                                  12 S, 1 on water

Red Phalarope                                               50++  hard to
keep track of, count, some stopping to feed

Dunlin                                                               4  S

Parasitic Jaeger                                             1   pale,
looked like adult  chasing terns 

Tern Sp.                                                           15+  too
far out to ID but see below

Heermann's Gull                                         120+  S

Mew Gull                                                       25       S

Common Murre                                          15  on water

Pigeon Guillemot                                       6

Ancient Murrelet                                       1  Flying, lit and
disappeared

 

Unid. Passerines                                        2  S together  -
gave soft churring call, seemed chunky, big-headed;  possibly longspurs

 

 

Yaquina Bay South Jetty  11:45 - 1:15 - Gull Spot

 

Black Turnstone                                          18

Western Sandpiper                                   1

Dunlin                                                             20

SABINE'S GULL                                            1   in juvenal
plumage - roosted but moved around, left when flushed by oblivious person

Heermann's Gull                                        6   (max count,
likely some turnover)

Mew Gull                                                      3

Western Gull                                               +

Glaucous-winged Gull                             +

Herring Gull                                                 3 Ad

Thayer's Gull                                              1  first cycle

ELEGANT TERN                                          63+  initially 2, then
joined by several groups.  Max count (late) was 63, but may have been some
turnover.

 

I suspect the terns at Boiler Bay were some of the same group that came to
South Jetty.

 

Wayne
[obol] Lincoln Co. storm birding

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