[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:15-9:15 (11/9):
continuous heavy drizzle, wind S 15-25, 8-10 ft swells
visibility < 1/2 mile, hundreds of tubenoses close in

500+ Red-throated Loons (S)
4000+ Pacific Loons (S most in first hour)
30+ Common Loons
2 Red-necked Grebes
40 Western Grebes (1 flying S)
300+ Northern Fulmars (S, 15-20% light)
1 Buller's Shearwater
2 MANX SHEARWATERS (separate birds ~1/2 hour apart moving
                           S with Sootys, both within 300 yards)
60+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (S)
800+ Sooty Shearwaters (S)
100 Brown Pelicans (feeding, N)
50 Brandt's Cormorants
3 Pelagic Cormorants
2 Black Scoters
80 White-winged Scoters
300 Surf Scoters
9 Bonaparte's Gulls
3+ Mew Gulls
500+ California Gulls (N, most adults)
3+ Herring Gulls
100+ Western Gulls (most N)
60+ Glaucous-winged Gulls (most N)
20 Heermann's Gulls
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
3000+ Common Murres (S, most in first hour)
2 Pigeon Guillemots
4 Marbled Murrelets
45 Ancient Murrelets (pairs & small groups S)
300 Rhinoceros Auklets (S)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net