[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:30-10:00 (10/21) with Wayne Hoffman:
mostly thin overcast, wind S 5-15 shifting SE, 10+ ft swells

300 Red-throated Loons
800 Pacific Loons
200 Common Loons
15 Red-necked Grebes
150 Western Grebes
2000+ Northern Fulmars (continuous 8-25/minute working slowly S
                                many within 1/2 mile, roughly 1/4 light)
3 Sooty Shearwaters
1200+ Brown Pelicans (many small groups S ranging to 2+ miles out)
60 Double-crested Cormorants
150 Brandt's Cormorants
10 Pelagic Cormorants
354 Aleutian Cackling Geese (8 flocks to 105)
2 Northern Pintail
6 Green-winged Teal
10 scaup sp.
700+ White-winged Scoter
3000+ Surf Scoters
8 Black Turnstones
100 Dunlin
1 Parasitic Jaeger (seen by Wayne)
20 Bonaparte's Gulls
50 Mew Gulls
1 Ring-billed Gull
700+ California Gulls
12 Herring Gulls
2 Thayer's Gulls
150 Western Gulls
30 Glaucous-winged Gulls
400 Heermann's Gulls
1 Sabine's Gull
12 Black-legged Kittiwakes
200 Common Murres
3 Pigeon Guillemots
15 Marbled Murrelets
1 Ancient Murrelet
50 Rhinoceros Auklets

Phil
philliplc at charter.net