The Trip:
Beautiful winter day ... went to Clatsop Spit to look for the Snowy Owls ... found 2 ... had lunch at Seaside Cove where there was a flock of at least 66 Surfbirds !!!!! ... and had a stop at a very windy Hammond Boat Basin where there were two male Common Mergansers in the Basin ...
Hammond Boat Basin:
For more birds seen or photographed at the Hammond Boat Basin ... click here.
Seaside Cove:
For more birds seen or photographed at Seaside Cove ... click here.
Clatsop County:
For more birds seen or photographed in Clatsop County ... click here.
Birds seen, heard, or photographed ... (arranged alphabetical):
- American Crow ... (CS, SC)
- Bald Eagle ... (CS)
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Black Turnstone ... (SC)
- Brown Pelican ... (CS)
- Bufflehead ... (HBB)
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Common Merganser ... (HBB)
- Common Raven ... (CS)
- Glaucous-winged Gull ... (HBB, SC)
- Mallard ... (CS, HBB)
- Northern Flicker ... (CS)
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Snowy Owl ... (CS)
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Surf Scoter ... (SC)
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Surfbird ... (SC)
- Western Gull ... (HBB, SC)
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Yellow-rumped Warbler ... (CS)
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Black Turnstone, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Black Turnstone, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Common Merganser, Hammond Boat Basin, Hammond, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
(DIGISCOPED).
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Digiscoped image, Nikon 50 and Canon S95.
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... first owl, in tree ...
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Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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... first owl, on log ...
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Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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... second owl, in tree ...
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Second Snowy Owl, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day with images taken in afternoon setting sun.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surf Scoter, male, and surf, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surf Scoter, male, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbird, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbirds, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbirds, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbirds, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbird, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Surfbird, Seaside Cove, Seaside, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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Yellow-rumped Warbler, South Jetty, Clatsop Spit, Oregon.
Sunny, chilly, beautiful day.
Image taken February 2, 2013.
Canon EOS 7d, 400mm.
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