[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

6:45-10:00 (11/13):
foggy with limited visibility early improving to mostly sunny,
mostly calm, 10+ ft swells, everything moving south.

loons slow starting but built to sustained clumpy
40-200/min, still moving when i left

4000+ Red-throated Loons
6000+ Pacific Loons
50+ Common Loons
24 Red-necked Grebes
40 Western Grebes
600+ Northern Fulmars (abrupt shift to 60% light overall with
                                 percentage of light birds increasing late)
12 Short-tailed Shearwaters
525 Brown Pelicans
75 Double-crested Cormorants
120 Brandt's Cormorants
10 Pelagic Cormorants
4 Mallards
1 Green-winged Teal
15 Black Scoters
1000+ White-winged Scoters
2500+ Surf Scoters
2 Red-breasted Mergansers
5 Bonaparte's Gulls
100 Mew Gulls
400+ California Gulls
80+ Herring Gulls
300+ Western Gulls
300+ Glaucous-winged Gulls
1 Heermann's Gull
2 Black-legged Kittiwakes
3000+ Common Murres (one possible basic Thick-billed in flight -
                      large-ish, blackish upperparts contrastingly darker in 
direct
                      comparison to Commons, & pristine white underparts
                      including sides/flanks. Unable to register details of
                      head/chinstrap or underwing pattern before it was by)
 5 Pigeon Guillemots
13 Marbled Murrelets
26 Ancient Murrelets
10 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net