[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:30-10:00 (10/20) part of the time with Wayne Hoffman:
overcast with intermittent driving rain, wind SW 20-30, 
15+ ft swells

30+ Red-throated Loons
400+ Pacific Loons
30+ Common Loons
1 Horned Grebe
3 Red-necked Grebes
5 Western Grebes
200+ Northern Fulmars
50 Pink-footed Shearwaters
1600+ Sooty Shearwaters
170 Brown Pelicans
80 Brandt's Cormorants
20 Pelagic Cormorants
167 Aleutian Cackling Geese (4 flocks to 88)
60 Northern Pintail
2 American Wigeon
7 Green-winged Teal
50 scaup sp.
3 Black Scoters
800 White-winged Scoters
1200 Surf Scoters
2 Harlequin Ducks (seen by Wayne)
150 Dunlin
3 Red Phalaropes
19 Pomarine Jaegers (inc 2 groups of 4)
35 Bonaparte's Gulls
2 Mew Gulls
3000+ California Gulls (mixed ages)
5+ Herring Gulls
300+ Western Gulls
50+ Glaucous-winged Gulls
1500+ Heermann's Gulls (inc up to 600 feeding off the point,
                 and several atypically begging in the parking lot)
3 Sabine's Gulls
2 Black-legged Kittiwakes
1 ARCTIC TERN (juv, wing-pattern well seen)
200 Common Murres
18 Pigeon Guillemots
50 Marbled Murrelets
1 Cassin's Auklet
30 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net