[obol] Boiler Bay
- From: "Phil Pickering" <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:24:48 -0700
9:15-12:45 (10/23):
overcast for most of duration with
some partial clearing after noon.
wind SW 10-30, swells 10+
Tubenoses mostly distant during first
hour then gradually pushed in by single
dense squall line that hit shore 11:35
300+ Red-throated Loon
7000+ Pacific Loon (briefly to 120/min during
first hour, steady 15-60/min after)
500+ Common Loon
2 Horned Grebe
25 Red-necked Grebe (S)
20 Western Grebe
3500+ Northern Fulmar (steady S, 98% dark-end,
10-25/min most of duration, briefly to 60+/min
in front of squall, still many moving when I left)
500+ Buller's Shearwater (S, majority seen in dense
flight in front of incoming squall, few detected
after noon)
800+ Pink-footed Shearwater (steady S increasing
in front of squall, few detected after noon)
100+ Sooty Shearwater
4+ Short-tailed Shearwater
1 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
4 Leach's Storm-Petrel
2500+ Brown Pelican (steady small flocks S)
400 Double-crested Cormorant (S)
600 Brandt's Cormorant (most S)
50 Pelagic Cormorant
1 BROWN BOOBY (good look at juv S roughly
3/4 mile, uniformly dark with contrastingly
paler axillaries/underwing coverts)
24 Canada Goose
400 Aleutian Cackling Goose
135 Brant (small flocks S)
25 Northern Pintail
6 American Wigeon
2 Northern Shoveler
300 Green-winged Teal
50 Greater Scaup
10 Lesser Scaup
600 scaup sp.
5 Harlequin Duck
1 Long-tailed Duck
3 Black Scoter
100 White-winged Scoter
8000 Surf Scoter
6 Red-breasted Merganser
1 Merlin
300 Dunlin
4000+ Red Phalarope (steady S with a few
feeding)
1+ Red-necked Phalarope
28 Pomarine Jaeger (S)
3 Parasitic Jaeger
5+ jaeger sp.
1 SOUTH POLAR SKUA (S about 1 mile)
8 Bonaparte's Gull
300+ Mew Gull
3000+ California Gull
300+ Herring Gull
200 Western Gull
100 Glaucous-winged Gull
5000+ Heermann's Gull (steady dense S flight)
1 Sabine's Gull (juv)
2 Black-legged Kittiwake (adults)
1 small sterna sp. (confusing 1st fall bird S but
seemed most likely to be a Common)
300 Common Murre
6 Pigeon Guillemot
6 Marbled Murrelet (S)
20+ Ancient Murrelet (S)
150+ Cassin's Auklet (S)
300 Rhinoceros Auklet (S)
Phil
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