DATE: September 3-7, 2007
TRIP: Offshore Birding Trip
Report
Day 1
After leaving San Diego Harbor to east end of Anacapa Island
| Pink-footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Black Storm-Petrel Leach’s Least Storm-Petrel Brown Pelican Pelagic Cormorant Red-necked Phalarope |
33
3 5 188 2 17 232 1 169 |
Red Phalarope
Heermann’s Gull Western Gull Sabine’s Gull Common Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger |
11
40 142 2 51 9 11 2 5 |
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Risso’s Dolphin, Blue Whale, Humpback Whale, Bottlenosed Dolphin
Day 2
East end of Anacapa west to the South Point of Santa Rosa, then south to the east end of San Nicolas. Conditions were rough and windy.
| Cook’s Petrel
Pink-footed Shearwater Buller’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Leach’s Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Brown Pelican Brandt’s Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Black Oystercatcher Surfbird Common Murre |
1
275 4 243 1 2 2 2000 670 3 5 10 3 |
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope Heermann’s Gull Western Gull Sabine’s Gull Royal Tern Elegant Tern South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Cassin’s Auklet Rhinoceras Auklet |
63
2 |
Day 3
East end of San Nicolas south to Tanner and Cortez Banks, then south-southwest to the 1000 fathom line. Sea anchored there.
| Teal sp.
Cook’s Petrel Pink-footed Shearwater Buller’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Leach’s Storm-Petrel Black Turnstone Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Heermann’s Gull Western Gull Arctic Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern |
3
1(night) 44 |
“Summer Guadalupe” Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Black Storm-Petrel Brown Pelican Brandt’s Cormorant Pacific Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Marbled Godwit South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Xantus’s Murrelet Cassin’s Auklet Rhinoceras Auklet White-winged Dove |
40
24 55 13 1 (night) 1 (night) 3 3 9 1 2 3 4 1 1 (night) |
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Northern Elephant Seal, Northern Fur Seal, Short-beaked Common Dolphin, Fin Whale
Day 4
Albacore grounds south of Cortez Banks to the Mushrooom and Sixtymile Bankk
| Black-footed Albatross
Pink-footed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Leach’s Storm-Petrel “Summer Guadalupe” Leach’s Storm-Petrel Black Storm-Petrel Red-billed Tropicbird Wandering Tattler Marbled Godwit Sanderling Red-necked Phalarope |
4
4 2 176 28 153 3 1 5 1 62 |
Red Phalarope
Western Gull Sabine’s Gull Pomarine Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Arctic Tern Common Tern Elegant Tern Mourning Dove Brown-headed Cowbird |
55
74 1 7 3 5 169 1 1 1 |
Mammals: California Sea Lion, Blue Whale, Sperm Whale, Fin Whale, Baird’s Beaked Whale, Sei Whale, Pacific White-sided Dolphin
