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>From: wings at olympus.net[SMTP:wings at olympus.net]
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>Hello, Tweets.
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><cut> Wasn't there going to
>be a pelagic trip associated with the gathering? Is my brain on the fritz
>again? If not, and I'm not mistaken, would anyone who might have gone on
>the trip please let me know what you saw? Thanks!
>
>I have an incomplete list, in part due to the fact that I was rather sick
during the whole trip. We had good weather, and had a good species
count, although Terry was dismayed at the total bird count.

Birds seen:

Common Loon
Western Grebe
Black-footed Albatross
Northern Fulmar Many, in all color phases
Pink-footed Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater Close looks at 1 or 2
Buller's Shearwater Good numbers
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater Very close looks at 2 or 3
Fork-tailed Storm-petrel
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Surf Scoter
Pomarine Jaeger A few flying past, none close
Parasitic Jaeger One?
South Polar Skua Two - and pretty good looks
Heerman's Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Common Murre
> Rhinocerous Auklet
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>== Michael Hobbs
>== Redmond WA
>== mikeho at microsoft.com