[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:00-8:30 AM (4/1):

mostly sunny, wind N/NE 5-10, 5-7 ft swells.

1500+ Red-throated Loons (N, 80%+ basic)
10+ Pacific Loons (basic)
2 Common Loons
3 Horned Grebes
2 Western Grebes
1 MANX SHEARWATER (S 1/2 mile out)
35 Double-crested Cormorants (N)
30 Brandt's Cormorants
40 Pelagic Cormorants
1 Black Scoter
700 White-winged Scoters (most S)
500 Surf Scoters (most N)
5 Red-Brested Mergansers
40 calidris sp.
500+ Bonaparte's Gulls (N)
4 Mew Gulls
3 Ring-billed Gulls
20 California Gulls
1 Thayer's Gull
400 Western Gulls
50 Glaucous-winged Gulls
4 Black-legged Kittiwakes
300 Common Murres
15 Pigeon Guillemots (1 still mostly in basic)
18 Marbled Murrelets (all basic)
6 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net