[obol] Boiler Bay

[Phil Pickering]

7:45-9:00 (10/30):
sunny with onshore fogbanks both north and south,
wind N 5-10, 6-8 ft swells

50 Red-throated Loons
800 Pacific Loons (S)
50 Common Loons
4 Horned Grebes
6 Red-necked Grebes
150 Western Grebes
12 Northern Fulmars
200 Sooty Shearwaters (N)
1930 Brown Pelicans (all N, 1660 in first 1/2 hour, ~60% adult)
8 Double-crested Cormorants
900 Brandt's Cormorants (N, most in first 1/2 hour)
60 Pelagic Cormorants (most mixed in Brant's flocks)
2 Northern Shoveler
3 Black Scoters
100 White-winged Scoters
400 Surf Scoters 
10 Bufflehead
8 Red-breasted Mergansers
200 calidris sp. (distant, probably Sanderlings)
1 Parasitic Jaeger
40 Bonaparte's Gulls (N)
40 Mew Gulls
600+ California Gulls (N)
2+ Herring Gulls
400+ Western Gulls (most N)
150+ Glaucous-winged Gulls (N)
600 Heermann's Gulls (N)
1 Black-legged Kittiwake
600 Common Murres (small groups S)
12 Pigeon Guillemots
7 Marbled Murrelets
4 Ancient Murrelets
1 Cassin's Auklet
250 Rhinoceros Auklets (N)

Phil
philliplc at charter.net