7:30-8:45 (10/26):
mostly overcast wind SW 5-15, swells 8-10
light haze beyond 1 mile
Dense concentration of gulls visible during the first
45 minutes in large feeding groups and streaming
south .5-1.5 mile out, followed by diminishing
activity with many sitting after 8:15.
No small shearwaters detected but individuals would
have been easy to miss at any distance in the gull
chaos.
A couple times I observed jaeger-like behavior by
Pink-footed Shearwaters aggressively chasing gulls
in the feeding groups.
50 Red-throated Loon
250 Pacific Loon
150 Common Loon
1 Red-necked Grebe
30 Western Grebe
15+ Northern Fulmar
4+ Buller's Shearwater
200+ Pink-footed Shearwater (scattered S w/dozens
feeding in gull concentrations)
80+ Sooty Shearwater
60 Brown Pelican
60 Brandt's Cormorant
10 Pelagic Cormorant
36 Cackling Goose
2 Black Scoter
15 White-winged Scoter
500 Surf Scoter
1 Red-breasted Merganser
1 Dunlin
3 Pomarine Jaeger
1 Parasitic Jaeger
6 Bonaparte's Gull
800+ Mew Gull
4000+ California Gull
1200+ Herring Gull
600+ Western Gull
300+ Glaucous-winged Gull
1200+ Heermann's Gull
1 Sabine's Gull (juv)
5 Black-legged Kittiwake
4000+ Common Murre (most S)
2 Marbled Murrelet
4 Ancient Murrelet
300+ Rhinoceros Auklet (most S)
About 3000 distant mostly stationary gulls and
a few Pink-footeds were visible off Spanish Head
1:45 this afternoon.
Phil
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