[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

6:45-10:15 (11/10):
overcast turning mostly sunny, wind NW 5-15, 8-10 ft swells

Loons clumpy 50-200/min south for most of the duration,
funneling 300-600/min between 8-8:30. Still many moving
when I left.

3000+ Red-throated Loons
25000+ Pacific Loons
100+ Common Loons
33 Red-necked Grebes (S)
50 Western Grebes
2000+ Northern Fulmars (S, densest in first hour, ~15% light)
2 Buller's Shearwaters
1 MANX SHEARWATER (S in loon stream 400 yards out)
30+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (S, probably low)
600+ Sooty Shearwaters (S)
2 storm-petrel sp. (dark-looking singles S 1+ mile out)
800 Brown Pelicans (small groups S)
150 Brandt's Cormorants (most S)
4 Pelagic Cormorants
6 Canada Geese
4 Brant
1 American Wigeon
25 Black Scoters
1 Harlequin Duck
1 Long-tailed Duck
1000+ White-winged Scoters (S)
4000+ Surf Scoters (S)
20 Red-breasted Mergansers
1 Peregrine Falcon
1 Pomarine Jaeger
80 Bonaparte's Gulls
80 Mew Gulls
600 California Gulls (S, most adults)
400 Herring Gulls (S, most adults)
4+ Thayer's Gulls
200 Western Gulls (most S)
400 Glaucous-winged Gulls (S, most adults)
30 Heermann's Gulls
7 Black-legged Kittiwakes
15000+ Common Murres (S, densest in first hour)
2 Pigeon Guillemots
80 Marbled Murrelets (most S)
175 Ancient Murrelets (most in small groups S)
100 Rhinoceros Auklets (S)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net