[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

10:30-11:00 (10/27):
sunny, calm, 4-6 ft swells

15 Red-throated Loons
60 Pacific Loons
7 Common Loons
50 Western Grebes
10 Northern Fulmars (N)
40 Sooty/Short-tailed (N)
10 Brown Pelicans
160 Double-crested Cormorants (135 in one V)
8 Brandt's Cormorants
11 Mallards
25 scaup sp.
2 Black Scoters
25 White-winged Scoters
400 Surf Scoters (flocks both directions)
1 Pomarine Jaeger
100 Bonaparte's Gulls (feeding, S)
2 Mew Gulls
40 California Gulls
2 Herring Gulls
150 Western Gulls (S)
200 Glaucous-winged Gulls (thin steady S flight, all immature)
40 Heermann's Gulls (S)
600 Common Murres (mostly rafting)
3 Marbled Murrelets
6 Ancient Murrelets (group S)

also noticed a thin flight of California Tortoiseshells in 
downtown Newport ~11:30.

Phil
philliplc at charter.net