By Paul Lehman
On Sunday, March 14, there was a pelagic trip to Nine-Mile Bank and the Coronado Islands, organized by a group from the El Paso area. A number of us San Diegans attended as well. In addition to the expected species--Pink-footed, Sooty, and Black-vented Shearwaters, Pomarine Jaegers, Xantus's Murrelets, and Cassin's and Rhinoceros Auklets—the following highlights were seen:
BROWN BOOBY: a new record-high count of 42 birds at colony on Middle Rock at Los Coronado Is., plus a bird on the southern Nile-Mile Bank only a half mile south of the U.S.--Mexico border
COMMON MURRE: THREE birds in Mexican waters, where quite rare, with and alternate-plumaged bird 4-1/4 nmi NW of North Coronado Is. and single basic-plumaged birds 5.6 nmi and 7.6 nmi NW of North Coronado
CINNAMON TEAL: male swimming around in the ocean 14 miles west of Tijuana
NORTHERN FULMAR: one on Nile-Mile Bank west of Point Loma
LONG-TAILED DUCK and single AMERICAN X BLACK and Black OYSTERCATCHERS continue a Ballast Point
Trip List
Sunday, 14 March 2010
San Diego County, California
Compiled by: Mark J. Billings and Matt Sadowski
Pacific Ocean off San Diego; 755–1140 and 1540–1700; mild, clear, calm–strong wind, and clam sea
Brant 30
Mallard 3
Lesser Scaup 8
Surf Scoter 300
Long-tailed Duck 1 AHY female
Bufflehead 25
Red-breasted Merganser 5
Red-throated Loon 1
Pacific Loon 4
Common Loon 3
Eared Grebe 5
Western Grebe 6
Western/Clark’s Grebe 15
Northern Fulmar 1
Pink-footed Shearwater 2
Sooty Shearwater 1
Black-vented Shearwater 50
Brown Pelican 75
Brandt’s Cormorant 175
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Pelagic Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 10
Great Egret 15
Snowy Egret 30
Little Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Osprey 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 4
Black Oystercatcher 1 ASY
American x Black Oystercatcher 1 ASY
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Willet 8
Whimbrel 4
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 8
Black Turnstone 6
Sanderling 1
Bonaparte’s Gull 300
Heermann’s Gull 60
Ring-billed Gull 6
Western Gull 150
California Gull 50
Royal Tern 35
Elegant Tern 5
Pomarine Jaeger 5
Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger 3
Xantus’s Murrelet 7
Cassin’s Auklet 8
Rhinoceros Auklet 110
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
American Crow 5
California Sea Lion 40
Risso’s Dolphin 8
Northern Elephant Seal 1
Northern Pacific Coast and Inshore Islands; Baja California
Islas Los Coronados; 1140–1540; mild, clear, light–strong wind, and calm sea
Cinnamon Teal 1
Surf Scoter 5
Pacific Loon 1
Black-vented Shearwater 55
Brown Booby 42 on nests
Brown Pelican 30
Brandt’s Cormorant 30
Pelagic Cormorant 15
Peregrine Falcon 2
Black Oystercatcher 5
American x Black Oystercatcher 1
Wandering Tattler 1
Bonaparte’s Gull 800
Heermann’s Gull 30
Western Gull 75
California Gull 30
Royal Tern 5
Elegant Tern 3
Pomarine Jaeger 3
Common Murre 3 AHYs
Xantus’s Murrelet 26
Cassin’s Auklet 35
Rhinoceros Auklet 35
hummingbird sp. 2 [Jay Keller]
Rock Wren 1
California Sea Lion 15
Northern Elephant Seal 7
Gray Whale 2
Harbor Seal 10
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