[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

6:45-8:45 (11/11):
overcast turning partly sunny, wind S 5-20, 10+ ft swells

500 Red-throated Loons
2500 Pacific Loons
70 Common Loons
5 Red-necked Grebes
20 Western Grebes
250 Northern Fulmars (minor S movement, several on the water)
2 Sooty Shearwaters
30 Sooty/Short-tailed
300 Brown Pelicans (S)
1 Double-crested Cormorant
40 Brandt's Cormorants
5 Pelagic Cormorants
160 Black Scoters (S, most in first 1/2 hour)
200 White-winged Scoters
400 Surf Scoters
8 Red-breasted Mergansers
2 small shorebird sp. (probably Red Phalaropes)
25 Bonaparte's Gulls
20 Mew Gulls
80 California Gulls
10 Herring Gulls
100 Western Gulls (most N)
50 Glaucous-winged Gulls
5 Heermann's Gulls
2 Black-legged Kittiwakes
500 Common Murres (S)
4 Pigeon Guillemots
6 Ancient Murrelets
15 Rhinoceros Auklets
1 Snow Bunting (flying S over the waves 200 yards out)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net