8:00-9:00 AM (10/21):
Partly clear, wind NE 5, swells 2-4
Visibility beyond 1 mile limited by distortion
I passed Hendrik on the way out and wished him
good luck so taking partial credit.
300 Red-throated Loon
900 Pacific Loon (briefly to 50/minute)
200 Common Loon
4 Horned Grebe
10 Red-necked Grebe
200 Western Grebe
40+ Sooty Shearwater
185 Brown Pelican (most S)
200 Brandt's Cormorant (N)
25 Pelagic Cormorant
18 Aleutian Cackling Goose
1 scaup sp.
1 Harlequin Duck
40 Black Scoter (many N)
150 White-winged Scoter
400 Surf Scoter
3 Red Phalarope
1 Pomarine Jaeger
2 Bonaparte's Gull
150 Mew Gull
300 California Gull
30 Herring Gull
2 Thayer's Gull
150 Western Gull
60 Glaucous -winged Gull
400 Heermann's Gull
larus sp. 800+
15 Black-legged Kittiwake (S 1 juv.)
2000+ Common Murre (most N)
54 Marbled Murrelet (most S)
3 Ancient Murrelet (S)
2 small auklet sp. (brief look at pair S 1/2 mile, size
and wing width/length suggestive of Parakeet
plus underwing seemed darker than typical for
Cassin's in similar lighting)
12 Rhinoceros Auklet
1 American Pipit
Phil
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