[obol] Cape Meares 12/14
- From: "Phil Pickering" <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Owen Schmidt" <oschmidt@xxxxxxx>, <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:31:51 -0800
Seawatch Cape Meares, Tillamook CBC
7:30-11:00 mostly overcast wind S 5
Approx 8:05 clumpy southbound flight
started consisting mostly of loons, Brandt's,
WW Scoters, Murres, and lesser numbers of
Rhinos. Flight steady to 9:20, continued but
diminishing movement after. Still some
minor movement underway at 11:00. First
overlap of which I am aware of significant
Pac Loon flight and CBC season at this latitude.
Gull density comparatively low.
2500 Red-throated Loon (90% S with Pacifics
with occasional pure group N)
9000 Pacific Loon (generally 40-150/min early
peaking briefly at 250/min, <50 after 9:20)
25 Common Loon
3 Red-necked Grebe
100 Western Grebe
27 Northern Fulmar (6 light)
1 Manx Shearwater*
120 Sooty Shearwater (scattered S most within
1 mile, no Short-tailed detected)
60 Pelagic Cormorant
1800 Brandt's Cormorant (roughly 1300 S, 500
in groups sitting or leapfrogging N)
5 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Brant
1200 White-winged Scoter (roughly 800 S, 400
sitting with a few groups N)
3 Surf Scoter
1 Common Merganser
2 Peregrine Falcon
2 Bald Eagle (adult pair perched on 3 Arch)
30 Red Phalarope
150 Mew Gull
20 California Gull
60 Herring Gull
4 Thayer's Gull
400 Western Gull
100 Glaucous-winged Gull
1 Heermann's Gull
15 Black-legged Kittiwake (all adult N)
17000 Common Murre (95% S)
2 Marbled Murrelet
4 Ancient Murrelet
270 Rhinoceros Auklet (S)
* small black/white shearwater south 1/2 mile
in diffuse sunlight, quick snappy wingbeats,
unpatterned uniform blackish uppertail, back,
upperwings, crown, & face to just below eye, with
black of upperparts extending onto sides of
breast. Clean white appearance to throat, central
breast, central underwings, belly & vent. Great
look at UT coverts - appeared clean white outlined
very thinly by black of tail. White on fore-flanks
appeared to extend up to slightly above wing
level, with a small but not substantial amount
of white visible on the sides behind the wing in
dorsal view.
Phil
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