[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:00-9:45 (11/16):

mostly sunny & calm with light haze, 10+ ft swells.
everything south

4000+ Red-throated Loons
2000+ Pacific Loons
800+ Common Loons
2 Horned Grebes
10 Red-necked Grebes
20 Western Grebes
1 Northern Fulmar
1 Sooty Shearwater
1 Short-tailed Shearwater
5 Sooty/Short-tailed
1 storm-petrel sp.
700 Brown Pelicans (small groups S)
40 Double-crested Cormorants
10 Brandt's Cormorants
20 Pelagic Cormorants
1 Canada Goose
190 Mallards (small groups S, first ever flight)
500 Northern Pintail
2 Gadwall
8 American Wigeon
2 Blue-winged/Cinnamon Teal
60 dabbling duck sp.
1 scaup sp.
40 Black Scoters
8000+ White-winged Scoters (6000 S in first 1/2 hour)
9000+ Surf Scoters (S)
4 Common Goldeneye
50 Red-breasted Mergansers
3 Common Mergansers
1 Peregrine Falcon
3 Sanderlings
20 calidris sp.
15 dowitcher sp.
4 Bonaparte's Gulls
400+ Mew Gulls
1 Ring-billed Gull (adult S)
1000+ California Gulls
50+ Herring Gulls
600+ Western Gulls
500+ Glaucous-winged Gulls
300 Heermann's Gulls
4 Black-legged Kittiwakes
300 Common Murres (1 in breeding plumage)
2 Pigeon Guillemots
170 Marbled Murrelets (scattered S with a few on the water)
6 Ancient Murrelets (S)
3 XANTUS'S MURRELETS (pair & single S @ point blank within 200 yds)
12 murrelet sp. (distant birds all with white underwings)
5 Cassin's Auklets
1 PARAKEET AUKLET (S at 200 yards, auklet shape, intermediate in
              bulk between Cassin's & Rhino with slower wingbeats than
              murrelets, underwings dark with slightly paler centers, 
uniform dark
              above & on face and sides of neck, dusky mottling on upper 
sides
              and sides of breast, center of underparts white from UT 
coverts to
              throat, no sign of color in bill even in direct sun, 
presumably juv.)
8 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net