The following report was provided by Terry Wahl (TRWahl at aol.com).

Gene Revelas
Tacoma, WA
grevelas at striplin.com
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> Westport Seabirds: Sep 24 and 26 trip totals
>
> Black-footed Albatross 9 20
> Laysan Albatross 0 1
> Northern Fulmar 393 259
> Pink-foot. Shearwater 120 27
> Flesh-foot. Shearwater 0 1
> Buller's Shearwater 60 113
> Sooty Shearwater 1259 390
> Short-tail. Shearwater 2 0
> Fork-tail. Storm-Petrel 40 22
> Red Phalarope 3 2
> Red-necked Phalarope 0 8
> Pomarine Jaeger 2 3
> Parasitic Jaeger 1 0
> South Polar Skua 4 5
> Heermann's Gull 966 130
> California Gull 227 115
> Herring Gull 0 1
> Western, G-wing. gulls 347 237
> Black-legged Kittiwake 2 10
> Sabine's Gull 38 43
> Common Murre 194 136
> Pigeon Guillemot 1 2
> Marbled Murrelet 0 1
> Cassin's Auklet 25 32
> Rhinoceros Auklet 12 7
>
> Humpbacked Whale 0 2
> Gray Whale 5 12
> Harbor Porpoise 1 5
> Dall's Porpoise 17 4
>
> Tough weather and big swells on the 24th turned worse and forced
cancellation
> of a trip scheduled for the 25th. Conditions improved to allow a trip on
the
> 26th. Migration appears well advanced, though Herring and Thayer's gulls
have
> not shown much yet. It has turned out to be a pretty good season for
> Flesh-footed Shearwater and better for South Polar Skua. Many 'common'
> species continue to be much less common than they were a decade or so
ago.
> These include regionally-breeding alcids and Sooty Shearwaters.
>
> Terry Wahl