[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:00-9:15 (11/19):
partly sunny with slow-moving incoming squalls, wind W 10-30,
6-8 ft swells.
http://philliplc.com/images/bbnov01.jpg
http://philliplc.com/images/bbnov02.jpg

6000+ Red-throated Loons (continuous S, densest in first hour)
300+ Pacific Loons
10 Common Loons
4 Red-necked Grebes
40 Western Grebes
2000+ Northern Fulmars (S densest in first hour, roughly equal
               light/dark with several very dark birds noted)
1 Short-tailed Shearwater
30 Brown Pelicans
1 Double-crested Cormorant
500 Brandt's Cormorants (N)
4 Pelagic Cormorants
2 Northern Pintail
3 American Wigeon
25 scaup sp.
9 Harlequin Ducks (S)
1 Long-tailed Duck
2 Black Scoters
600+ White-winged Scoters
4000+ Surf Scoters
5 Bufflehead
40 Red-breasted Mergansers
4 Bonaparte's Gulls
30 Mew Gulls
300 California Gulls
20 Herring Gulls
300 Western Gulls
600 Glaucous-winged Gulls
50 Heermann's Gulls
10000+ larus sp (continuous S on the horizon 2-3 miles out)
6 Black-legged Kittiwakes
500 Common Murres (S)
4 Pigeon Guillemots
2 Marbled Murrelets 
9 Ancient Murrelets
1 Cassin's Auklet
2 Rhinoceros Auklets

+ several un-ID'd whales on the horizon, spouts looked like
Humpbacks but were getting immediately wind-blasted.

Also saw an adult Eagle grab a pale Fulmar off the water, but it
was only able to get about 30 feet up before dropping it. 

Phil
philliplc at charter.net