[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:15-9:15 AM (10/16):

Partly sunny, wind W/SW 5-10, 8-10 ft swells.

Tubenoses trending south during first hour, moving 
both directions during second.

20 Red-throated Loons
40 Pacific Loons
15 Common Loons
1 Horned Grebe
1 Red-necked Grebe
3 Western Grebes
500+ Northern Fulmars (roughly equal light/dark)
60+ Buller's Shearwaters 
4 Pink-footed Shearwaters
1 MANX SHEARWATER (south 1/2 mile out)
20 Short-tailed Shearwaters
30 Sooty Shearwaters
400+ Sooty/Short-tailed
1 LEACH'S STORM-PETREL (S)
4 Brown Pelicans
1 Double-crested Cormorant
800 Brandt's Cormorants (many small flocks N)
40 Pelagic Cormorants 
470 Aleutian Cackling Geese (S)
1 American Wigeon
15 Green-winged Teal
120 scaup sp.
3 Harlequin Ducks
1 Long-tailed Duck
25 Black Scoters
100 White-winged Scoters
1500 Surf Scoters (most S)
3 small calidris sp.
19 Pomarine Jaegers (all S)
1 Parasitic Jaeger
20 Mew Gulls
800+ California Gulls (most immatures N)
1 Herring Gull
300 Western Gulls
30 Glaucous-winged Gulls
50 Heermann's Gulls
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
500 Common Murres (N)
6 Marbled Murrelets
4 Ancient Murrelets (S)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net