Mile 245 - Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek - February 25, 2008

Report Details

It was a beautiful day at the beach! There seemed to be an unusually large amount of small plastic pieces in the wrack line - especially at the south end of mile 245. The speaker system on the house near the north end of Roads End was very annoying and I'm assuming set up to keep gulls away from the home.

Conditions

Temperature: 50 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.

Activities

Number of people: 32. Number of dogs: 5. Walking or running: 30. Sitting: 2.

Concerns

Litter

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 21. RVs/Buses parking: 2.

Notable Wildlife

Western Gulls, Glaucous Winged Gulls,

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 4. I banded each of the birds for the COASST survey. The four species were: Western Gull, Northern Fulmar, Western Grebe, and Sooty Sheerwater.

Wrackline Content

Plastic debri (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Shells.

Actions & Comments

The fourth house from the end of Roads End has a loud speaker that seems to be motion sensored to scare birds away. The speaker emits the sounds of very raucous gulls or some other bird. It went off when I walked by on the beach and also went off when some gulls flew by. This is the first time I've noticed this speaker.