5-Hour Pelagic Trip To The Nine-mile Bank
Whales, Dolphins & Seabirds |
A beautiful day at sea on the first of 3 San Diego Bird Festival Pelagic trips.
Highlights included
5 Xantus’s Murrelets in Mexico over the Coronado Canyon
4 northbound Gray Whales so close you could practically touch them
2 Mew Gulls at the harbor mouth, and adult and a first-cycle
9 ghostly fairies dancing a ballet on the water’s surface (Bonaparte’s Gulls)
3 Pom Jaegers
A herd of Common Dolphin
Close ups of a flock of Black-vented Shearwaters on the water
and. . . . the Bird Of The Day:
An adult Blue-footed Booby
32.621203° N -117.330740° W
9.4 km (5.1 n. mi.) sw of Point Loma
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San Diego Waters Trip List
Brant (Black) 30
Mallard 2
Lesser Scaup 1
Surf Scoter 27
Bufflehead 20
Pacific Loon 5
Common Loon 5
Eared Grebe 2
Western Grebe 25
Black-vented Shearwater 32
Blue-footed Booby 1
Brown Pelican 150
Brandt's Cormorant 1000
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 6
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 15
Osprey 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 1
Bonaparte's Gull 9
Heermann's Gull 65
Mew Gull (American) 2
Ring-billed Gull 5
Western Gull 80
California Gull 150
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 10
Pomarine Jaeger 2
Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger 1
Cassin's Auklet 45
Rhinoceros Auklet 30
Mexican Waters List
Surf Scoter 5
Black-vented Shearwater 12
Brown Pelican 30
Brandt's Cormorant 8
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Heermann's Gull 10
Western Gull 30
California Gull 15
Pomarine Jaeger 1
Xantus's Murrelet 5 scrippsi
Cassin's Auklet 10
Rhinoceros Auklet 10
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