[obol] Boiler Bay 10/19
- From: "Phil Pickering" <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:30:14 -0700
my numbers to supplement what
Dave Irons reported -
8:00-12:00:
dense overcast with brief light rain early
gradually becoming partly clear. Wind SSE
early shifting to SSW 10-30, swells 8-10
200+ Red-throated Loon
3000+ Pacific Loon (intermittently to 40/min)
15 Common Loon
20 Western Grebe
2 Red-necked Grebe
3 BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS (pair S spotted
by Dave 3+ miles, then later single S between
2-3 miles)
1 Northern Fulmar (Dave)
600+ Pink-footed Shearwater (conservative,
at times 5-10/min. visible S on the horizon
depending on lighting, many thousands
must be present near shore at this latitude
currently)
300+ Sooty Shearwater (S)
500+ Brown Pelican (some flocks N early shifting
to steady thin S flight)
1 Double-crested Cormorant
900+ Brandt's Cormorant (streaming N early
shifting to minor movement S)
50 Pelagic Cormorant
230 Aleutian Cackling Goose (flocks to 80 plus
lone juv hanging out with gulls on the lawn)
2 Mallard
8 Northern Pintail
16 American Wigeon
1 Green-winged Teal
3 Greater Scaup
5 scaup sp.
40 White-winged Scoter
400 Surf Scoter
2 Peregrine (S)
4 Dunlin
2 Pomarine Jaeger
1 Parasitic Jaeger
1 jaeger sp.
1 Bonaparte's Gull
400+ Mew Gull
3000+ California Gull (mixed ages S)
200 Western Gull
40 Glaucous-winged Gull
2500+ Heermann's Gull (steady moderate
S movement for entire duration)
120 Common Murre
6 Pigeon Guillemot
21 Marbled Murrelet (S)
2 Ancient Murrelet (pair on the water)
3 Cassin's Auklet (2 S, 1 on the water)
11 Rhinoceros Auklet (S)
2 American Pipit (Dave)
Phil
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