Saturday April 15th San Diego pelagic trip
Saturday April 15th San Diego pelagic trip
By {authorlink} – 5:25 am
A 9-hour pelagic trip on Saturday, 15 April, out to the 9-Mile Bank, SD Trough, 30-Mile Bank, and ‘The Corner’ aboard “Legacy” took place in light-to-moderate seas. Species seen during the day beyond a couple miles offshore were as follows:
Brant 7
Surf Scoter 16
Whimbrel 6
Surfbird 10
Red-necked Phalarope 95
Pomarine Jaeger 4
Scripps’s Murrelet 5
Cassin’s Auklet 36
Rhinoceros Auklet 6
Bonaparte’s Gull 2
Heermann’s Gull 1
Western Gull 250
California Gull 40
Royal Tern 1
Elegant Tern 50
Red-throated Loon 5
Pacific Loon 750 (many northbound flocks)
Common Loon 4
BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS 2 (both next to boat; 1 fairly close to shore inside 9-Mile Bank, 1 in outer SD Trough)
Black Storm-Petrel 50
Northern Fulmar 1
Pink-footed Shearwater 18
Sooty Shearwater 65
Black-vented Shearwater 1
Brown Booby 3
Brown Pelican 40
Brandt’s Cormorant 25
Great Egret 1
Fin Whale lots!
–Paul Lehman, Dave Povey, Dan Jehl, Nancy Christensen, San Diego