Sunday September 19, 2010

Here is the eBird report for our trip:

Location: Monterey Seavalley pelagic (MTY Co.)
Observation date: 9/19/10
Notes: Monterey Seabirds trip aboard 'Pt Sur Clipper' with R. Ternullo, skipper; Roger Wolfe, Dan Singer, Todd Easterla, D. Roberson leaders; others aboard included a Sac Audubon trip with Dan Brown and others, and an Eagle Eye tour led by Richard Knapton. Exceptionally calm and lovely day; Beaufort 0-1 all day; patchy overcast but mostly sun. This checklist is offshore only (>1 mi offshore). Route was to Pt. Pinos, WSW to 22 nmi W of Cypress Pt, then SE to ~10 west of Walnut Canyon, N paralleling coast 10 mi off to a point NW of Pt. Pinos, and return to Monterey harbor. Mammals included 2 Blue Whale, sev Humpbacks, huge pod of 1000+ White-sided & N Rightwhale Dolphins.
Number of species:			21
	Black-footed Albatross		7
	Northern Fulmar		2		light morphs
	Pink-footed Shearwater		300
	Buller's Shearwater		35
	Sooty Shearwater		1500
	Ashy Storm-Petrel		2		by Todd Easterla only
	Red-necked Phalarope		20
	Red Phalarope		1
	Sabine's Gull		1		juv came into back of boat.
	Heermann's Gull		30
	Western Gull		300
	California Gull		200
	Common Tern		5		single flock of 5, 10 mi off
	Arctic Tern		1		adult; photo'd
	Elegant Tern		1		one 9 nmi offshore; dozens were inshore [not included on this checklist]
	Pomarine Jaeger		12		1 full-tailed dark morph adult; rest subadults
	Parasitic Jaeger		8		subadults, some photo'd
	Long-tailed Jaeger		43		no full-tailed adults but several appeared to be adults without tails; 80% or more were subadults, varying ages (many photo'd). All between 10-22 nmi offshore
	jaeger sp.		6		likely mostly distant Long-tails, but a couple Pom/Par sps
	Common Murre		40
	Cassin's Auklet		10
	Rhinoceros Auklet		120

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)


Roger Wolfe for Monterey Seabirds