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
<mailto: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
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