[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:30-10:15 (10/17):
partly, becoming mostly overcast, wind SW 10-20, 8-10 ft swells
everything south unless noted

100 Red-throated Loons
100 Common Loons
1200 Pacific Loons
3 Horned Grebes
3 Red-necked Grebes
8 Western Grebes
800+ Northern Fulmars (roughly 20% light)
1 Buller's Shearwater
150+ Pink-footed Shearwaters
1 MANX-TYPE SHEARWATER (S 3/4 mile out)
20+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (low)
2500+ Sooty Shearwaters
1 storm-petrel sp.
1500+ Brown Pelicans (steady N with many groups flying over
                                  the point at up to 500 ft)
6 Double-crested Cormorants
100 Brandt's Cormorants (most N)
25 Pelagic Cormorants
1075 Aleutian Cackling Geese (19 flocks to 115, noticed 3 minima and
                                       2 probable taverneri mixed in)
400 Northern Pintail
150 American Wigeon
1 Northern Shoveler
400 Green-winged Teal
700 Greater Scaup
3+ Lesser Scaup
4 Black Scoters
300 White-winged Scoters
800 Surf Scoters
2 Black Turnstones
500+ Dunlin
2 Red Phalaropes
4 Pomarine Jaegers
1 SOUTH POLAR SKUA (S 1/2 mile out)
30 Bonaparte's Gulls
900 California Gulls
4+ Herring Gulls
300 Western Gulls
30 Glaucous-winged Gulls
400 Heermann's Gulls
2 Black-legged Kittiwakes (adult)
150 Common Murres
6 Pigeon Guillemots
6 Marbled Murrelets
1 Ancient Murrelet
200 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net