Howdy birders: Today started out with calm weather and a large flock of storm petrels. These were mostly black, with a few Ashy and a couple least storm petrels. We also had a great look at a pod of Risso’s dolphins in clear, well-lit water and they just loafed around while we took observation. After that we had a acrobatic show of some bottlenose dolphins. Our highlight today was a pigeon guillemot sighting. It was a suprise to see them here around the Channel Islands this late in the year. And fter that we had steady pink-footed, sooty and a few black-vented shearwaters thoughout the rest of the day. So we’re headed west tomorrow to deeeeep water looking for tubenoses, so wish us luck and stand by for a report tomorrow. Good birding, Capt Aaron
