7:00-9:00 (11/11):
mostly overcast wind NNW 10-25 swells 6-8
Loon movement widely dispersed by the tailwind
with birds moving off the water from 1/2 mile out
to the limit of visibility (I think 4+ miles). Densest
during first hour, becoming gradually more clumpy
and intermittent after 8:00.
4000+ Red-throated Loon
35000+ Pacific Loon (steady 200-500/min pulsing
to 1000+/min during most of first hour, quite
possibly near shore edge of much larger flight)
500+ Common Loon
1 Horned Grebe
3 Red-necked Grebe
60 Western Grebe
3 Northern Fulmar
2 white-bellied tubenose sp.
4 Short-tailed Shearwater
2 Sooty Shearwater
150+ Sooty/Short-tailed
1 Leach's Storm-Petrel
500 Brown Pelican (most S)
15 Double-crested Cormorant
500+ Brandt's Cormorant (most S)
60+ Pelagic Cormorant
46 Cackling Goose
4 Mallard
3 Northern Pintail
1 Green-winged Teal
5 scaup sp.
1 Long-tailed Duck
20 Black Scoter
120 White-winged Scoter
3000 Surf Scoter
3 Bufflehead
3 Pomarine Jaeger
2 Bonaparte's Gull
100+ Mew Gull
300+ California Gull
15+ Herring Gull
1 Thayer's Gull (3rd-cycle on the lawn)
200+ Western Gull
300+ Glaucous-winged Gull (most immature)
300+ Heermann's Gull
80+ Black-legged Kittiwake (mixed ages S)
9000+ Common Murre (most S)
1 Pigeon Guillemot
4 Marbled Murrelet
53 Ancient Murrelet (S)
1 Cassin's Auklet
25 Rhinoceros Auklet (S)
Phil
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