3.5 hours aggregate 8:00-9:30, 12:00-2:00 (10/5):
overcast/squalls, wind W 10-20
everything moving south unless noted
40 Red-throated Loon
500 Pacific Loon
500 Common Loon
8 Red-necked Grebe
10 Western Grebe
1 BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS (~1.5 mile)
400+ Northern Fulmar (all dark-end)
15+ Buller's Shearwater
600+ Pink-footed Shearwater (steady scattered
individuals mixed with Sootys)
2+ Short-tailed Shearwater (close in birds, likely
more mixed with Sootys at distance)
12000+ Sooty Shearwater (steady S)
2 storm-petrel sp.
300 Brown Pelican
1000+ Brandt's Cormorant (90% in flocks N)
200+ Pelagic Cormorant (most S)
1-2 BROWN BOOBY*
1 SWAN SP. (apparent dark juv. Trumpeter, need
to double check references)
1 Canada Goose
15 Aleutian Cackling Goose
3 Greater White-fronted Goose (juvs on the lawn)
30+ Mallard
15+ Gadwall
800+ Northern Pintail
300+ American Wigeon
70+ Northern Shoveler
800 Green-winged Teal
4 Canvasback
2500+ Greater Scaup (major S movement with a
few smaller flocks N, no Lesser detected but
may have been small numbers mixed)
1 Long-tailed Duck
4 Black Scoter
50 White-winged Scoter
800 Surf Scoter
2 Red-breasted Merganser
400+ phalarope sp. (distant, assume most/all Red)
3 Parasitic Jaeger
105 Pomarine Jaeger (inc. barrage of 90 in 30 min
in stronger winds trailing a squall ~12:20-50)
12+ jaeger sp.
1 SOUTH POLAR SKUA (good look 1/2 mile out 8:30)
40 Mew Gull
1200+ California Gull (mixed ages)
2+ Thayer's Gull
150+ Herring Gull
100+ Glaucous-winged Gull
800+ Western Gull (mixed ages)
400 Heermann's Gull
7 Sabine's Gull
3 Black-legged Kittiwake
5 Elegant Tern
200 Common Murre
3 Pigeon Guillemot
15 Rhinoceros Auklet
3 Cassin's Auklet
* detections at 8:47 and 1:12 both of mature or
nearly mature females in close, both moving
purposely south with traffic so high probability
of 2 individuals
Phil
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