OBOL: We birded the Lincoln county coast today 9 AM - 3:30 PM. Boiler Bay, Depoe Bay, Otter Crest loop, Moolak Beach, NW 68th St., S Jetty of Yaquina Bay, parking lot behind NOAA building, 12th St., then back to Boiler Bay. Lots of rain - sideways. We didn't find nearly as many birds as were reported on the weekend. NO tubenoses, few loons, no Tropical Kingbird. 1 Red-throated Loon 2 Pacific Loon 9 Common Loon 2 Horned Grebe 1 Red-necked Grebe 35 Western Grebe 111 Brown Pelican 4 Brandt's Cormorant 1 Double-crested Cormorant 30 Pelagic Cormorant 1 Great Egret 5 Cackling Geese 1 Harlequin Duck 200 Surf Scoter 150 Black Scoter 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Peregrine Falcon 8 Black Oystercatcher 2 Black Turnstone 12 RED PHALAROPE 60 Bonaparte's Gull 48 Heermann's Gull 2 Mew Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 625 California Gull 190 Western Gull 3 Glaucous-winged Gull 6 Elegant Tern - S jetty, Newport 2 Common Murre 2 Pigeon Guillemot 6 Rock Pigeon 1 BLACK PHOEBE - down on rocks, end of Ellingson St, Depoe Bay 2 Steller's Jay 6 American Crow 75 European Starling 4 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Brewer's Blackbird 6 House Sparrow Good birding, everyone, Paul Sulllivan & Carol Karlen McMinnville