Trip totals for 19 August:

Black-footed Albatross 283
Northern Fulmar 955
Pink-foot. Shearwater 354
Sooty Shearwater 8260
Fork-tail. Storm-Petrel 12
Red Phalarope 27
Red-necked Phalarope 85
Long-tailed Jaeger 2
jaeger sp. 2
South Polar Skua 1
Heermann's Gull 306
California Gull 222
Western, G-wing. gulls 400
Red-legged Kittiwake 1
Sabine's Gull 27
Caspian Tern 1
Common Tern 3
Arctic Tern 18
Common Murre 275
Pigeon Guillemot 20
Rhinoceros Auklet 23
Tufted Puffin 3
Total birds 11276
Harbor Porpoise 1
Harbor Seal 2
Ocean Sunfish 9
Blue Shark 2

Things continue very strange. Where are Buller's Shearwaters, jaegers,
alcids, cetaceans and pinnipeds? Some spp., like Sooties, are fairly
impressive in numbers and Pink-foots are looking more like we're used to, but
other regulars like California Gulls are relatively almost scarce. We haven't
encountered a Flesh-footed Shearwater all year. Red-legged Kittiwake kind-of
makes up for things.

Observers on 19th: Bruce LaBar, Scott Mills and Phil Anderson.

TW

Ryan Shaw
Lacey, WA
RTShaw80 at aol.com
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