[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:00-8:30 (11/7):
mostly overcast, calm, 3-5 ft swells

700 Red-throated Loons (S)
100 Pacific Loons (S)
10 Common Loons
2 Red-necked Grebes
50 Western Grebes
1 Northern Fulmar
10 Short-tailed Shearwaters
50 Sooty Shearwaters
500+ Sooty/Short-tailed (N)
200 Brown Pelicans (feeding, N)
1000 Brandt's Cormorants (N)
zero Pelagic Cormorants
8 Mallards
15 Greater Scaup
300 White-winged Scoters 
400 Surf Scoters 
4 Common Goldeneye
1 Bufflehead
15 Red-breasted Mergansers (all N)
1 FRANKLIN'S GULL (basic adult N)
30 Mew Gulls
500+ California Gulls (N, almost all large-end adults)
150+ Western Gulls (most N)
50 Glaucous-winged Gulls (most N)
20 Heermann's Gulls
3 Black-legged Kittiwakes
6000+ Common Murres (N)
1 Pigeon Guillemot
8 Marbled Murrelets
65 Ancient Murrelets (feeding, N)
1 Cassin's Auklet
900+ Rhinoceros Auklets (N)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net