Last week, May 20-24,?Micheal Willison, Michael Shrimpf, Ryan Merrill
and?I traveled on a Holland America cruise ship from San Diego, CA to
Vancouver, BC via Victoria.? We spent about 30 hours on deck over two
full and two partial days searching for seabirds and marine mammals
with telescopes and binoculars.? Before heading out on the ship, we
also spent about 2 days birding southern California.? Below it the
highlights from the cruise portion of our trip.? (The 175 species we
saw in Cali is more suitable for LA area listing, and are available on
eBird)

Below are highlights from CA & OR waters of the positively ID species only:
Brant 80
Pacific Loon 23
Laysan Albatross 1
Black-footed Albatross 1
Short-tailed Albatross 1
Northern Fulmar 245
Murphy's Petrel 9
Cook's Petrel 35
Pink-footed Shearwater 59
Sooty Shearwater 326
Short-tailed Shearwater 2
Black Storm Petrel 13
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel 79
Leache's Storm Petrel 80
Ashy Storm Petrel 4
Red-necked Phalarope 2
Red Phalarope 498
Sabine Gull 246
Arctic Tern 45
Pomarine Jeager 21
Parasitic Jeager 2
Xantu's Murrelet 10
Rhinoceros Auklet 5
Common Murre 27
Cassin's Auklet 101
Parakeet Auklet 5

In Washington waters, where we only spent a?couple of hours, we saw
these additional birds:

Brant 2
Surf Scoter 2
White-winged Scoter 2
Pacific Loon 7
Common Loon 1
Sooty Shearwater 13
Brandt's Cormorant 2
Pelagic Cormorant 2
Red-necked Phalarope 23
Red Phalarope 2
Sabine's Gull 5
Herring Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 11
Common Murre 34
Cassin's Auklet 28
Rhinoceros Auklet 13
Turfted Puffin 2
All observations have been posted on eBird (thank you Ryan).
I have some poor bird photos, and some ok Mammal photos on my site below:
Bird Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22333182 at N04/

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Knut Hansen
Renton
knut-hansen at comcast.net