Pelagic trip report:
Saturday, August 30, 2008
5 hours
From Charleston, Oregon, offshore 10 nautical miles.
For the Oregon Shorebird Festival.
Seas very rough, windy.
Boat: Betty Kay
Captain Kathy
The Bird Guide, Inc.
http://thebirdguide.com/
Guides: Greg Gillson, Tim Shelmerdine, Tom Snetsinger, Russ Namitz
Species list American Wigeon 2 (seen by few) Northern Pintail 80 Pacific Loon 1 Common Loon 1 Red-necked Grebe 1 Black-footed Albatross 4 Northern Fulmar 8 Pink-footed Shearwater 85 Buller's Shearwater 4 Sooty Shearwater 60 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 1 (seen by few) Brown Pelican 50 Brandt's Cormorant 40 Double-crested Cormorant 80 Pelagic Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Black Turnstone 5 Red-necked Phalarope 120 Pomarine Jaeger 2 Long-tailed Jaeger 2 Heermann's Gull 40 California Gull 80 Western Gull 35 Sabine's Gull 1 (seen by few) Common Murre 160 Pigeon Guillemot 8 Marbled Murrelet 1 (seen by few) Rhinoceros Auklet 10 California Sea Lion Steller's Sea Lion 1 (seen by few) Humpback Whale 2 Dall's Porpoise 2 Ocean Sunfish (seen by few)