Pelagic Trip Report:
Sunday, August 31, 2003
Newport, Lincoln Co., Oregon, to 19 miles offshore
5-hours
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Yaquina Bay Common Loon 1 Brandt's Cormorant 36 Double-crested Cormorant 12 Pelagic Cormorant 31 Great Blue Heron 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 Surfbird 5 Black Turnstone 7 Red-necked Phalarope 3 Glaucous-winged Gull 3 Western Gull 27 Heermann's Gull 29 California Gull 13 Common Murre 5 Pigeon Guillemot 5 Rock Dove 16 American Crow 8 European Starling 50 California Sea Lion 100 Harbor Seal 10 Nearshore (to 3 miles) Common Loon 1 Pacific Loon 1 Sooty Shearwater 4 Brandt's Cormorant 11 Pelagic Cormorant 8 White-winged Scoter 3 Red-necked Phalarope 12 Western Gull 21 Heermann's Gull 2 California Gull 1 Common Murre 23 Pigeon Guillemot 14 Rhinoceros Auklet 1 Gray Whale 1 3-19 miles offshore Black-footed Albatross 4 Northern Fulmar 27 Pink-footed Shearwater 89 Sooty Shearwater 74 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 5 Red Phalarope 7 Long-tailed Jaeger 2 Parasitic Jaeger 1 Western Gull 26 tern (sp.) (Arctic/Common) 1 Common Murre 6 Cassin's Auklet 49 Tufted Puffin 1 Steller's Sea Lion 6back