[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:30-9:45 AM (10/15):
overcast, wind mostly S 5-10, 4-6 ft swells

100 Red-throated Loons
200 Common Loons
1000 Pacific Loons (mostly singles S)
2 Red-necked Grebes
10 Western Grebes
50+ Northern Fulmars
20+ Pink-footed Shearwaters
20000+ Sooty Shearwaters (feeding, funneling N at up to 300/min, most
                                           1+ mile out)
500 Brown Pelicans (feeding, N)
22 Double-crested Cormorants
100 Brandt's Cormorants (N)
6 Pelagic Cormorants
1 Northern Pintail
200 White-winged Scoters
700 Surf Scoters
2 Black Scoters
1 Peregrine
4 calidris sp.
1 Black Turnstone
2 Pomarine Jaegers
4+ jaeger sp.
15 Bonaparte's Gulls
50 Mew Gulls
500 California Gulls (most S)
8+ Herring Gulls
300 Western Gulls (most S)
40 Glaucous-winged Gulls
600+ Heermann's Gulls (feeding, movement both directions)
1 Sabine's Gull (juv)
3 Black-legged Kittiwake (1 juv)
400 Common Murres (S)
1 Pigeon Guillemot
4 Marbled Murrelets
400 Rhinoceros Auklets (small groups S)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net