[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

6:45-7:45 AM (4/9):

mostly overcast, wind SW 15-25, 8-10 ft swells.

500+ Red-throated Loons (N, 70%+ basic)
1 Common Loon
3 Western Grebes
500+ Sooty/Short-tailed (S on the horizon, assume most Sooty)
70 Brandt's Cormorants (S)
30 Pelagic Cormorants
3 Black Scoters
1000 Surf Scoters (S most in first 15 min)
200 White-winged Scoters (S)
1 Mew Gull
3 California Gulls
1 Herring Gull
200 Western Gulls (S)
15 Glaucous-winged Gulls
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
8000+ Common Murres (S most in first 15 min)
250 Pigeon Guillemots (S groups to 9)
8 Marbled Murrelets (S all molting/alternate)
3 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net