[obol] Two more Hawaiian Petrels off S. Oregon
- From: Shawneen Finnegan <shawneenfinnegan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx OBOL" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:07:11 -0700
Greetings:
Hawaiian Petrels are proving to be regular offshore along the West Coast,
mostly off California but north up to BC.
The first post by Paul Lehman is of birds seen on the southbound leg of yet
another cruise. This is the last one of lord knows how many he took this year.
The second portion of this message is the one he posted to CALBIRDS. When I
talked to him yesterday he said he has now seen something like 45 Hawaiian
Petrels on his various trips the last few years.
His details on Oregon sightings are as follows:
The two Hawaiian Petrels we saw off Oregon on 16 July were as follows:
44.228, 125.181 -- ca. 85 km offshore, just south of off Yachats
43.242, 125.140 -- ca. 62 km W of Cape Arago
Other miscellanea on the 16th included:
Northern Fulmar: good summer total of 25 birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel: total of 280 birds
South Polar Skua -- 44.531, 125.193
Long-tailed Jaegers -- singles 83 km W of Siuslaw River mouth and 47 km off
Cape Blanco (@42.894N)
Parasitic Jaeger -- with the Long-tailed well off Cape Blanco
fresh juvenile California Gull -- 53 km WNW of Cape Blanco
adult California and Western Gulls -- as far offshore as 46 and 63 km,
respectively, off Curry Co.
two Wandering Tattlers -- flying s. ca. 86 km offshore @ 44.286, 125.183
Western Sandpiper -- 76 km W of Winchester Bay
--Paul Lehman
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: early Buller's, Skuas, Long-taileds (plus 6 Hawaiians and 1
Murphy's)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:20:20 -0700
From: Paul Lehman <lehman.paul1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CALBIRDS <CALBIRDS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Several of us took another round-trip cruise-ship pelagic trip aboard a
Princess cruise-ship from San Francisco to se. Alaska and back, July
6-17. We had a total of 6 HAWAIIAN PETRELS and 1 MURPHY'S PETREL, and 2
of the Hawaiians (July 7) and the one Murphy's (getting late; also July
7) were a little south of 42N, thus is CA waters based on the OLD
boundaries used, but not based on the current "closest point of land"
method, which went to s. Oregon... We also had Hawaiian Petrel as far
north as s. BC waters.
On July 16, in Humboldt County waters we had a somewhat early BULLER'S
SHEARWATER ca. 66 km SW of Shelter Cove. Also 2 SOUTH POLAR SKUAS 64 km
SW of Shelter Cove, and presumably southbound LONG-TAILED JAEGERS at
both 73 km W of Eureka and 55 km WNW of Cape Mendocino, Arctic Tern ca.
66 km W of Shelter Cove, and a total of 10 SABINE'S GULLS (plus one off
Del Norte Co.).
--Paul Lehman, San Diego
Shawneen Finnegan
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