Saturday July 23, 2011

View our GPS track on Google Maps (Ignore portions of the GPS track to the east of the Monterey marina.)

Here is Don Roberson's eBird report for the day:

Observation date: 7/23/11

Notes: Aboard 'Pt Sur Clipper' with skipper John Mayer with Roger Wolfe, Martijn Verdoes, Tim Amaral, Blake Matheson; Don Glasco, Gary Deghi, et al. Overcast and cold all day with some wind, but wind from SW so sea fairly calm with light chop, Beaufort 2. We went out a mile past Pt. Pinos to a pair of Blue Whale, then south about 2 nmi offshore to Carmel Bay, then west to 6 nmi off Cypress Pt., then N to 5 nmi NW of Pt. Pinos and return. This checklist offshore species only -- all 1-2 nmi offshore or more. Besides the Blue Whales were ~20 Humpback, a few Pac White-sided Dolphin (and Harbor Porpoise & Minke Whale that I missed) 19 species (+2 other taxa)

Location: Monterey County
Number of species:			19
	Black-footed Albatross		6
	Northern Fulmar		8		all gray morphs
	Pink-footed Shearwater		5
	Sooty Shearwater		1000
	Ashy Storm-Petrel		1		~4 nmi N of Pt. Pinos
	Brandt's Cormorant		20		many more inshore; ~200 nesting on Coast Guard pier
	Brown Pelican		70
	Red-necked Phalarope		150
	Red Phalarope		2
	Sabine's Gull		60		all adults (some photo'd) mostly 3-6 nmi offshore, sometimes in flocks of ~10 or so; a few sitting on water with SOSH flocks also
	Heermann's Gull		15
	Western Gull		100
	California Gull		10
	Elegant Tern		10		excluded inshore ones
	Parasitic Jaeger		4		1 juv + one 1st/2nd cycle
	Long-tailed Jaeger		1		earliest Monterey record by one week
	Parasitic/Long-tailed Jaeger		1
	jaeger sp.		2		very likely Parasitics
	Common Murre		80
	Cassin's Auklet		50
	Rhinoceros Auklet		15

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

Roger Wolfe for Monterey Seabirds