SD Bird Festival Friday Pelagic Trip

The Friday San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trip out to the 9-Mile Bank aboard “New Seaforth” took place under very pleasant sea conditions. A good day for alcids. Totals for the trip, once about a mile or so offshore were:

Surf Scoter  3

Pomarine Jaeger  3

Parasitic Jaeger  3

jaeger sp.  1

Common Murre  17  (good count)

Scripps’s Murrelet  11

Rhinoceros Auklet  85  (good count)

Cassin’s Auklet  12

Bonaparte’s Gull  450

Heermann’s Gull  18

Western Gull  80

California Gull  45

Herring Gull  1

Glaucous-winged Gull  1

Royal Tern  1

Pacific Loon  3

Black-vented Shearwater  420

Brown Booby  1

Double-crested Cormorant  3

Brandt’s Cormorant  40

Also:  22 Surfbirds, 3 Black Turnstones, 3 Gray Whales

–Paul Lehman, Dave Povey, Nancy Christensen, Tom Blackman, Dan Jehl, San Diego