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Lincoln Co.
October 5, 1949, Yachats State Park, /S to Neptune Park, Lane Co. Oregon
noon - 1330 PST
Farallon Cormorants - 20' from water on sand flat, with gulls.
Baird's Cormorants - 8
Sooty Shearwaters - Puffinus griseus - ¼-mile offshore, paralleling swell crests.
About 25 were seen.
Pink-footed Shearwaters - Puffinus creatopus - new life lister - ½-mile offshore,
paralleling swell crests - about 6 seen.
Pintails - 8 of them on pools of rocky coast in tidewaters. On pools of salt
water on sand beaches, and rocky headlands, too.
Surf Scoter - 27 Green-winged Teal - 3 shot at Bathhurst
White-winged Scoter - 25 Red-tailed Hawk Duck Hawk
Black Turnstones - 40 on rocky headlands washed by waves at high tide.
Heerman's Gulls - 3 dark-headed individuals, 1 full dark red bill and white trail-
ing wing edge, and adult tail; other 2 gulls with dark-tipped pale bills.
These gulls scattered through flocks of the following species on the sands:
Western Gulls - 10
California Gulls - 350
Herring Gull - 0 / 40
Ring-billed Gulls - 2
Bonaparte Gull - 3
Kittiwake - Pacific - Rissa tridactyla pollicaris - new life lister, although
listed in notes of Tom McCallister for the Oregon Coast. 3 observed about
¼-mile offshore, paralleling swell crests with shearwaters.
Red-shafer Flicker Coast Wren-tit Brewer Blackbirds
Western Crow Raven Aleutian Savannah Sparrow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee Song Sparrow
October 5, 1949, Siuslaw River, Florence, Lane Co. Oregon 4 p.m.
Blue Heron Least Sandpipers - 7 Western Gulls Herring Gulls
October 6, 1949, Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co. Oregon. 1115-1130 a.m. PST
Horned Grebes - 2
Brown Pelicans - 20-25
Farallon Cormorants
Baldpates - 35
White-winged Scoters
Surf Scoters
Black-bell ed Plovers - 26 in fall plumage
Red-backed Sandpiper - 1
Glaucous-winged Gulls - 6-7
California Gulls
Herring Gulls
Ring-billed Gulls - few
Red-shafer Flicker
Western Kingbird - good record - Perched on top of bushes, and on wire lines, and
tops of piling on sand dune area near old southside ferry landing in open.
Western Crows
Ravens
Robins Purple Finch - flock on sand dunes and in tree lupines.
Aleutian Savannah Sparrows
Puget Sound White-crowned Sparrows
Song Sparrows - singing