Pelagic Trip Report:
Friday, September 6, 2002
Newport, Lincoln Co., Oregon, to 22 miles offshore
5-hours
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Yaquina Bay Common Loon 2 Brown Pelican 1 Brandt's Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant 3 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 1 Green-winged Teal Osprey 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Black Turnstone Surfbird Wandering Tattler California Gull Western Gull Heermann's Gull 40 Caspian Tern 2 Common Murre 17 Rock Dove Belted Kingfisher Harbor Seal 15 California Sea Lion 50 Nearshore (to 3 miles) Common Loon 2 Red-throated Loon 12 Sooty Shearwater 1 Brandt's Cormorant 21 Pelagic Cormorant 11 Surf Scoter 31 White-winged Scoter 5 Red-necked Phalarope 114 California Gull 1 Western Gull 16 Common Murre 14 Pigeon Guillemot 4 Marbled Murrelet 10 Cassin's Auklet 1 Rhinoceros Auklet 3 Gray Whale 1 3-22 miles offshore Black-footed Albatross 167 Northern Fulmar 13 Pink-footed Shearwater 139 Sooty Shearwater 782 Buller's Shearwater 4 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 1 Brandt's Cormorant 5 Red Phalarope 1 Red-necked Phalarope 11 phalarope (sp.) 14 South Polar Skua 3 Parasitic Jaeger 12 Pomarine Jaeger 22 Long-tailed Jaeger 1 jaeger (sp.) 9 Ring-billed Gull 1 California Gull 10 Western Gull 9 Sabine's Gull 8 Arctic Tern 1 Common Murre 32 Cassin's Auklet 7 Rhinoceros Auklet 8 Tufted Puffin 2 Harbor Porpoise 1 Dall's Porpoise 4 Albacore Tuna (school splashing) Ocean Sunfish 2 Blue Shark 10back