Subject: Westport, WA Pelagic Results - 7 August 1999
Date: Aug 11 15:40:26 1999
From: Gene Revelas - grevelas at striplin.com


Here's Terry Wahl's notes and tally form last weekend's Westport Seabirds
trip.

Gene Revelas
Tacoma, WA
grevelas at striplin.com

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Fog restricted vision for part of the day, but interesting birds turned up.
'Official' totals:

Black-footed Albatross 259
Laysan Albatross 1 (flew out of fog, passed close by)
Northern Fulmar 325 (good number)
Pink-footed Shearwater 48 (low again)
Buller's Shearwater 2 (early)
Sooty Shearwater 527 (low)
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 25 (low),
Leach's Storm-Petrel 135 (at warmer water offshore)
Brown Pelican 455+
Red-necked Phalarope 47
Pomarine Jaeger 5
Parasitic Jaeger 2
Long-tailed Jaeger 2
South Polar Skua 1
Heermann's Gull 752
California Gull 139 (very low)
Western and Glaucous-winged gulls 413
Sabine's Gull 4
Caspian Tern 7 (a few years ago there were hundreds)
Arctic Tern 4
Common Murre 2397 (numbers up, corresponding with reports of nesting success
in Oregon; some chicks)
Pigeon Guillemot 37
Marbled Murrelet 2
Cassin's Auklet 6
Rhinoceros Auklet 431
Tufted Puffin 1

Observers, leaders: Bruce La Bar, Gene Revelas, Phil Anderson

Comments: Terry Wahl

For information on Westport Seabirds pelagic trips, contact Terry Wahl:
TRWahl at aol.com