7:45-8:45 (10/27):
mostly overcast wind E 10-15 swells 3-5
Gulls continually moving both directions but most
trending south, inc. fairly high percentage of juveniles
for Mew, Cal, Herring, and Glaucous-winged.
Only a few distant Tubenoses
150 Red-throated Loon
250 Pacific Loon
500 Common Loon
3 Red-necked Grebe
50 Western Grebe
1 Northern Fulmar
4 Pink-footed Shearwater
2 Sooty Shearwater
400 Brown Pelican (S)
14 Double-crested Cormorant
150 Brandt's Cormorant (N)
20 Pelagic Cormorant
75 Aleutian Cackling Goose
2 Northern Pintail
25 Green-winged Teal
4 Greater Scaup
1 Long-tailed Duck
5 Black Scoter
30 White-winged Scoter
600 Surf Scoter
2 Bufflehead
3 Red-breasted Merganser
1 Peregrine Falcon (dove on a group of Bonys)
1 jaeger sp.
800+ Bonaparte's Gull
600+ Mew Gull
3000+ California Gull
400+ Herring Gull (many close in juv. detected)
2+ Thayer's Gull
600+ Western Gull
400+ Glaucous-winged Gull (most juv.)
1500+ Heermann's Gull (steady S)
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
1500+ Common Murre (most N)
4 Marbled Murrelet
6 Ancient Murrelet (S)
3 Cassin's Auklet (1 sitting in close, 2 S)
25 Rhinoceros Auklet (S)
Again also checked off Spanish Head at 1:30-45 and
still tons of gulls - pinkfoots were doing more sitting/
feeding but many Heermann's still moving south.
Phil
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