[obol] Re: Boiler Bay
- From: Wayne Hoffman <whoffman@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Phil Pickering <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:34:39 -0700
Hi, Phil -
Impressive morning!
Interesting how much heavier the movement was here than all the other
places reporting.
The verdict on the large shorebird was large shorebird. It was very
cinnamon colored so could have been a Marbled Godwit or perhaps a
Long-billed Curlew, but too far out to tell.
Wayne
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Phil Pickering <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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