August 12 Pelagic -- Sightings

8 hour pelagic out of Newport on the Enterprise, with Skipper Dave DeBelloy.  Birding the bay, out to draggers 30 miles out, out to 35 miles and return.  Guides: Tim Shelmerdine, Russ Namitz, Bob Archer. Huge flocks of birds around fishing vessels.

All birds, including bay: 

Surf Scoter 1                                                     Red-necked Grebe 1

Rock Pigeon 5                                                   Red-necked Phalarope 12

Red Phalarope 171                                           Red-necked/Red Phalarope 150

South Polar Skua 1                                           Pomarine Jaeger 2

Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger 1                             Long-tailed Jaeger 1

Common Murre 226                                          Pigeon Guillemot 55

Marbled Murrelet 8                                           Cassin’s Auklet 3

Rhinoceros Auklet 5                                         Sabine’s Gull 6

Heermann’s Gull 2                                            Western Gull 86

California Gull 170                                            Glaucous-winged Gull 2

Arctic Tern 2                                                      Common/Arctic Tern 2

Common Loon 1                                                LAYSAN ALBATROSS 2

Black-footed Albatross 865                              Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 517

Northern Fulmar 1575                                      Pink-footed Shearwater 992                       

FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER 1              Buller’s Shearwater 22  

Sooty Shearwater 41                                         SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER 4

Brandt’s Cormorant 70                                     Pelagic Cormorant 62     

Double-crested Cormorant 75                          Brown Pelican 10

Cliff Swallow 2                                                                                                                                        

Other fauna:

Gray whale 1                                                      humpback whale 1

Harbor porpoise 2                                              Steller’s sea lion 6

California sea lion 8