6:45-1:15 (11/1):
Steady rain until 7:10 then gradually becoming
partly to mostly clear with only a glancing blow
from 1 squall (never trust a pessimistic forecast
I guess). Wind mostly SW 10-25 swells 10+. Other
than scattered gull feeding flocks everything
generally streaming south.
With Wayne Hoffman, Peter Lowe, Judy Meredith,
Will Wright, Chistopher Hinkle, and part of the
time with Nagi and Taghrid (no last name).
Peter and Judy were still hanging in when I left
so may have additions.
Majority of gulls moving over the ocean but also
with large groups intermittently streaming over the
bluff. As usual with these multi-species flights
numbers are generally conservative due to the
impossibility of getting a rigorous handle on rate
for every species.
300+ Red-throated Loon
1000+ Pacific Loon
4000+ Common Loon
6 Horned Grebe
70 Red-necked Grebe (S)
150 Western Grebe
1 LAYSAN ALBATROSS (distant seen by Peter)
2 BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS
8000+ Northern Fulmar (steady 10-50/minute most
beyond 1 mile, very roughly 10% pale-end)
1 Buller's Shearwater (Christopher)
500+ Pink-footed Shearwater (many close in early
but then shifting further and further out, only a
few detected after 10:30)
1 BLACK-VENTED SHEARWATER
1+ Short-tailed Shearwater
2000+ Sooty Shearwater
12 Leach's Storm-Petrel
5 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
60 Brown Pelican
10 Double-crested Cormorant
600+ Brandt's Cormorant (most S)
200+ Pelagic Cormorant
54 Aleutian Cackling Goose
1900 Brant
8 Mallard
2 Gadwall
150 Northern Pintail
18 American Wigeon
150 Green-winged Teal
2+ Lesser Scaup
60+ Greater Scaup
3 Harlequin Duck
25 Black Scoter
80+ White-winged Scoter
4000+ Surf Scoter
5 Bufflehead
18 Red-breasted Merganser
12 Black Turnstone
35 Sanderling
2000+ Dunlin
80+ Least/Western
8000+ Red Phalarope (increasing late)
1 LONG-TAILED JAEGER (Peter)
9 Parasitic Jaeger
56 Pomarine Jaeger (increasing late)
8 jaeger sp.
5000+ Bonaparte's Gull
1 FRANKLIN'S GULL (spotted by Christopher)
1000+ Mew Gull
20000+ California Gull
2500+ Herring Gull (inc. numerous juvenile)
6+ Thayer's Gull (low)
1200+ Western Gull
1500+ Glaucous-winged Gull
5000+ Heermann's Gull
1 Sabine' Gull
50 Black-legged Kittiwake
3 Elegant Tern
4000+ Common Murre
10 Pigeon Guillemot
24 Ancient Murrelet
80 Marbled Murrelet (most S)
80 Cassin's Auklet
16 Rhinoceros Auklet
Phil
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