[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:30-10:45 (10/19):
mostly overcast, wind SW 10-25, 10+ ft swells
everything south

400 Red-throated Loons
3000 Pacific Loons
300 Common Loons
4 Horned Grebes
74 Red-necked Grebes (singles, small groups S)
6 Western Grebes
400+ Northern Fulmars (~1/4 light)
40 Pink-footed Shearwaters
3+ Short-tailed Shearwaters
2000+ Sooty Shearwaters
200 Brown Pelicans (most feeding with Heermann's, a few S)
250 Double-crested Cormorants (feeding with Heermann's)
100 Brandt's Cormorants
30 Pelagic Cormorants
570 Aleutian Cackling Geese (flocks to 65, a few minima mixed in)
250 Northern Pintail
30 American Wigeon
4 Green-winged Teal
800 scaup sp (mostly Greater but at least small numbers of Lesser)
4 Black Scoters
1000 White-winged Scoters
3000 Surf Scoters
1 Peregrine
7 Black-bellied Plovers
5 Black Turnstones
4000+ Dunlin
50+ Sanderlings
50+ smaller calidris
3 Pomarine Jaegers
300 Bonaparte's Gulls
40 Mew Gulls
6000+ California Gulls (mixed ages, increasing late)
10+ Herring Gulls (low)
2 Thayer's Gulls
400+ Western Gulls
50 Glaucous-winged Gulls
5000+ Heermann's Gulls (2000+ S in first hour, followed
            by lesser movement with feeding group of up to
            2000 building up directly off the point)
1 Sabine's Gull (juv)
7 Black-legged Kittiwakes (1 juv)
2000+ Common Murres
4 Pigeon Guillemots
60 Marbled Murrelets (mostly pairs S)
6 Ancient Murrelets
3500+ Rhinoceros Auklets (2000 in first 40 minutes)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net