[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

6:15-7:45 AM (5/1):
overcast, wind SE 5, 5-7 ft swells.

500+ Red-throated Loons
2000+ Pacific Loons
30+ Common Loons
2 Horned Grebes
8 Western Grebes
1 Brown Pelican
1 Double-crested Cormorant
150 Brandt's Cormorants (most S)
80 Pelagic Cormorants (most N)
900 White-winged Scoters (N)
2500 Surf Scoters 
10 Red-breasted Mergansers
20+ Semipalmated Plovers
10+ Dunlin
8000+ Western Sandpipers (almost all in first 45 minutes)
1+ Least Sandpiper
15 dowitcher sp.
1 jaeger sp.
1 FRANKLIN'S GULL (adult N)
5 California Gulls
200 Western Gulls (most N)
8 Glaucous-winged Gulls
2 Common Terns
2 Caspian Terns
7000+ Common Murres (most N)
120 Pigeon Guillemots (most N)
7 Marbled Murrelets
20 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net