For those of you who do not monitor BIRDCHAT, Shearwater Pelagic Tours
out of Monterey just posted their lists for the last 3 weekends.

Most notable was the list for this last weekend (8/10):
Manx Shearwater (listed as early)
Black-vented Shearwater (listed as early)
Black Storm-petrel (listed as early)
Elegant Tern (listed as unusually high numbers)

They also noted the presence of warm water Albacore in large numbers.

The complete lists will be at my seawatch website.


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********************************* I am but mad north-north-west;
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