[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:00-9:45 (11/17):

mostly sunny, wind SSE 5-10, 10+ ft swells.

1500+ Red-throated Loons
15000+ Pacific Loons (clumpy 40-200/minute with brief pulse to 500/min)
500+ Common Loons
2 Horned Grebes
8 Red-necked Grebes
100 Western Grebes
1 Clark's Grebe
2 Northern Fulmars
15 Short-tailed Shearwaters
1 Sooty Shearwater
10 sooty/short-tailed
400 Brown Pelicans (S)
5 Double-crested Cormorants
15 Brandt's Cormorants
20 Pelagic Cormorants
1 scaup sp.
2 Long-tailed Ducks
30 Black Scoters
3000+ White-winged Scoters (most in first 1/2 hour)
2000+ Surf Scoters
2 Bufflehead
50 Red-breasted Mergansers
6 Bonaparte's Gulls
600+ Mew Gulls
100+ California Gulls
7+ Herring Gulls
200+ Western Gulls
300+ Glaucous-winged Gulls
150 Heermann's Gulls
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
200 Common Murres
2 Pigeon Guillemots
35 Marbled Murrelets (most S)
9 Ancient Murrelets
1 American Pipit

Phil
philliplc at charter.net