Dave Pereksta’s photo of the murrelet from a previous trip.
Hello birders: We had a great day on the calm Pacific Ocean today! We started the day off by checking out lots of shearwaters and storm petrels in our slick. The highlight this morning was an epic look at a Guadalupe murrelet. Shortly after we had a Red-billed tropicbird circle the boat for around 15 minutes while we had a brown booby fly by as well.
The afternoon’s sightings consisted of fin whales, blue whales and some more common dolphin. Even a loggerhead turtle graced us for awhile. We saw a few Craveri’s murrelets, and the last pair we saw let us get close for us all to enjoy. We’re going to bird for a couple hours before calling a great trip!
Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew
Many thanks to Tom Blackman for the brown booby photo use!
