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2010 Trip Reports & Highlights
Mike San Miguel aboard the Condor Express
Mike San Miguel aboard the Condor Express May 1, 2010
2010 is dedicated to Mike San Miguel. 

2010 Highlight Doc-U-Photos below.

To view trip reports, scroll your cursor over the words 2010 Trip Reports in the left column; a drop down menu will appear.  Click on the trip of your choice. 

2010 HIGHLIGHTS
Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel on Thirty Mile Bank off San Diego 4 Oct 2010 (c) Matt Sadowski
Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel on Thirty Mile Bank off San Diego 4 Oct 2010 (c) Matt Sadowski
 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel Tom Blackman
Wilson's Storm-Petrel on the San Diego Nine Mile Bank 3 Sep 2010 (c) Tom Blackman
 
Cook's Petrels Condor Express SoCalBirding Pelagic Birding Southern California
A few of the 237 Cook's Petrels seen 12 June 2010 from the mighty Condor Express (c) Tom Blackman
 
Black-footed Albatross San Diego Bird Festival (c) Matt Sadowski
Black-footed Albatross offshore downtown San Diego 7 Mar 2010 San Diego Bird Festival (c) Matt Sadowski
 
10,000 Black and Least Storm-Petrels San Diego Thirty Mile Bank Grande Buena Vista Audubon
10,000 Black and Least Storm-Petrels (70/30 Least/Black) 9 Oct 2010 off San Diego on the Thirty Mile Bank
 
Flesh-footed Shearwater San Diego Nine Mile Bank Grande Buena Vista Audubon  (c) Matt Sadowski
Flesh-footed Shearwater San Diego Nine Mile Bank 4 Oct 2010 (c) Matt Sadowski
 
Flesh-footed Shearwater off San Diego California from SEARCHER 9 Sep 2010 (c) Todd McGrath
Flesh-footed Shearwater from SEARCHER 9 Sep 2010 (c) Todd McGrath
 
Red-billed Tropicbird Grande Buena Vista Audubon (c) Tom Blackman
Red-billed Tropicbird on the San Diego Nine Mile Bank 13 Feb 2010 (c) Tom Blackman
 
Blue-footed Booby Coronados Islands Grande (c) Tom Blackman
Blue-footed Booby on the Los Coronados Islands ten miles south of San Diego waters on 3 Sep 2010 (c) Tom Blackman
 
Brown Boobies San Diego Thirty Mile Bank Grande Buena Vista Audubon
Brown Boobies San Diego Thirty Mile Bank 4 Oct 2010 Grande (c) Tom Blackman
 
Laysan Albatross San Diego Bird Festival Los Coronados Islands Mexico Mexican Point Loma (c) Steve N. G. Howell
Laysan Albatross two miles south of the U.S./Mexican border March 2010 San Diego Bird Festival
 
Baird's Beaked Whale Bell Bank Grande Buena Vista Audubon (c) Lee Hoy
Breaching Baird's Beaked Whale near the Bell Bank (L.A. County) 17 Aug 2010 (c) Lee Hoy
 
Sperm Whale Grande Matt Sadowski Buena Vista Audubon Southern California Pelaigic Seabirding
Sperm Whale from Grande 3 Oct 2010 (c) Matt Sadowski
 
Black-footed Albatross
San Diego Black-footed Albie - Tom Blackman - 4OCT2010
 
Cassin's Auklet (c) Todd McGrath  November 2011
Cassin's Auklet (c) Todd McGrath November 2011
 
Jon Feenstra, Matt Sadowski, Tom Blackman
Jon Feenstra, Matt Sadowski, Tom Blackman
 
Grande Pelagic Seabirds Charter Trips Southern California SoCal
Hannah Loly, Master Chummer, takes a break
 
Todd McGrath and Dave Pereksta aboard Grande 13 Nov 2010
Todd McGrath and Dave Pereksta aboard Grande 13 Nov 2010
 
Guy McCaskie  13 Nov 2010  Grande
Guy McCaskie 13 Nov 2010 Grande
 
Paul Lehman & Captain James McDaniels
Paul Lehman & Captain James McDaniels
 
Dave Povey and his 300+ pound Yellow Fin Tuna  -  Nov 2010
Dave Povey and his 300+ pound Yellow Fin Tuna - Nov 2010
 
waterspout  san diego Steve N.G. Howell - bird festival pelagic grande
San Diego Bird Festival 2010 Waterspout






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