[obol] Boiler Bay
- From: "Phil Pickering" <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:21:48 -0700
7:30-1:00 (10/26):
Mostly overcast becoming partly clear with
squalls missing to both the north and south,
wind mostly SW 5-10, swells 10+
Summary includes birds spotted by Wayne
Hoffman and Dave Irons
1500+ Red-throated Loon
16000+ Pacific Loon (no big groups but sustained
30-100/minute for duration)
2000+ Common Loon
3 Horned Grebe
25 Red-necked Grebe (S)
10 Western Grebe
7000+ Northern Fulmar (sustained 10-50/min S
for most of duration, 99% dark)
3 Buller's Shearwater
6 Pink-footed Shearwater
50+ Buller's/Pink-footed
2 Short-tailed Shearwater
10 Sooty Shearwater
30+ Sooty/Short-tailed
2000+ Brown Pelican (trending N early, moderate
S movement late)
250 Double-crested Cormorant (S)
800+ Brandt's Cormorant (most N)
100 Pelagic Cormorant
250 Canada Goose (multiple flocks during first hour)
6 Cackling Goose
53 Brant (small flocks S)
3 Mallard
70 Northern Pintail
50 American Wigeon
4 Northern Shoveler
400 Green-winged Teal
100 Greater Scaup
300 scaup sp.
1 Harlequin Duck
1 Long-tailed Duck
20000+ Surf Scoter (strings densest in first 3 hours)
400 White-winged Scoter
20 Black Scoter
12 Red-breasted Merganser
2+ Peregrine (at least 10 detections of a single bird
hunting, not sure how many individuals involved
but at least 2)
600+ Dunlin
15+ Least/Western
3000+ Red Phalarope
2+ Red-necked Phalarope
9 Parasitic Jaeger
6 Pomarine Jaeger
6+ jaeger sp.
2000+ Bonaparte's Gull (increasing late with
continuous movement after noon)
1 FRANKLIN'S GULL (basic adult S)
2000+ Mew Gull
15000+ California Gull (most adult but still many
juv. moving)
2500+ Herring Gull (increasing late)
8+ Thayer's Gull (presumably many more present
but detection rate too low to extrapolate)
1500+ Western Gull (S)
500+ Glaucous-winged Gull
5000+ Heermann's Gull (increasing late)
4 Sabine's Gull (3 juv, 1 adult)
200 Black-legged Kittiwake (90% adult)
1 Elegant Tern
600+ Common Murre (most S)
7 Pigeon Guillemot
40 Marbled Murrelet (most S)
40+ Ancient Murrelet (S, probably low)
30000+ Cassin's Auklet (conservative, continuous
S flight during entire duration, most 1+ mile
typically 50-150/min detectable but with two 15+
minute stretches during ideal lighting of steady
300+/min. in waves of flocks moving out to the
limit of visibility, still going strong at 1:00)
80+ Rhinoceros Auklet (most S)
Wayne also saw a large shorebird I didn't catch
the verdict on.
Phil
philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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