Pelagic trip report:
Saturday, March 19, 2005
5-hours from Newport Oregon, offshore to 20 miles where turned back by heavy seas and rain.
Trip guides: Greg Gillson, Troy Guy, Tim Shelmerdine, Lisa Sheffield, David Mandell.

Highlights from the trip included good looks at SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATERS and ANCIENT MURRELETS. A FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER 20 miles offshore adds to our small, but growing list of spring records from Oregon.

Surf Scoter 80
Black Scoter 1
Harlequin Duck 5
Bufflehead 15
Common Loon 12
Pacific Loon 25
Red-throated Loon 40
Red-necked Grebe 4
Western Grebe 10
Northern Fulmar 1 (few observers)
Pink-footed Shearwater 1 (few observers)
Flesh-footed Shearwater 1
Sooty Shearwater 1
Short-tailed Shearwater 10
Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater 5
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 1 (few observers)
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Brandt's Cormorant 60
Pelagic Cormorant 15
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black Turnstone 1
Bonaparte's Gull 5
Mew Gull 5
California Gull 10
Herring Gull 35
Thayer's Gull 3
Western Gull 70
Glaucous-winged Gull 20
Black-legged Kittiwake 25
Common Murre 200
Pigeon Guillemot 60
Cassin's Auklet 20
Marbled Murrelet 2
Ancient Murrelet 30
Rhinoceros Auklet 90
Rock Pigeon 30
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 (20 miles at sea)

Gray Whale 5
Harbor Porpoise 1
Steller's Sea Lion 6
Harbor Seal 6