[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:45-11:00 (10/28) with Dave Tracy:
sunny, calm early then wind NW 10-25 with incoming
fogbank after 9:30, 4-6 ft swells

dense pelican/gull feeding group built up off the point
before dispersing after 9:30

300 Red-throated Loons
2000 Pacific Loons (S early, then many moving N after 9:30)
200 Common Loons
5 Horned Grebes
10 Red-necked Grebes
300 Western Grebes
25 Northern Fulmars
2 Pink-footed Shearwaters
1 probable Flesh-footed (brief look at very large all-dark shearwater 
                           with Pink-foot like shape/flight)
5+ Short-tailed Shearwaters (probably low)
1000+ Sooty Shearwaters (some feeding w/continuous thin N flight)
800+ Brown Pelicans (feeding w/minor movement both directions)
7 Double-crested Cormorants
150 Brandt's Cormorants (most N)
5 Pelagic Cormorants
22 Cackling Geese (aleutians with at least one minima)
5 Northern Shoveler
60 Green-winged Teal (S)
25 Greater Scaup
20 Black Scoters
300+ White-winged Scoters (most S)
1200+ Surf Scoters (most S)
1 Red-breasted Merganser
2 Black Turnstones
300+ Bonaparte's Gulls (feeding, trending N)
100+ Mew Gulls
800+ California Gulls
20+ Herring Gulls
1 Thayer's Gull
1000+ Western Gulls (feeding, trending S)
300+ Glaucous-winged Gulls (feeding or S, mixed ages)
600+ Heermann's Gulls (feeding, S)
1 Sabine's Gull
20 Black-legged Kittiwakes
400+ Common Murres (most N)
6 Pigeon Guillemots
25 Marbled Murrelets (most in pairs S)
80+ Ancient Murrelets (most in small flocks N)
500+ Rhinoceros Auklets (most N with dozens on the water)
1 American Pipit

also north Siletz Bay ~11:15:
500 California Gulls (almost all large-end pale adults)
100 Heermann's Gulls
small numbers Herring/Mew
250 Brown Pelicans

Phil
philliplc at charter.net