The San Diego pelagic trip on 23 May aboard “Legacy” out of Mission Bay and sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon Society traveled out to the 9-Mile and 30-Mile Banks region under pleasant weather conditions. Highlights of the trip included a well-seen South Polar Skua, a total of 4 Cocos Boobies, 8 getting-late Common Murres, several Ashy Storm-Petrels and Sabine’s Gulls, and a Blue Whale.
Totals for the day once we were over a mile offshore were as follows:
- Surf Scoter 1 (northbound)
- Pomarine Jaeger 1
- jaeger sp. 1
- SOUTH POLAR SKUA 1 (30-Mile Bank)
- Common Murre 8 (good count for late season)
- Scripps’s Murrelet 19
- Cassin’s Auklet 22
- Sabine’s Gull 5
- Heermann’s Gull 4
- Western Gull 150
- Elegant Tern 60
- Pacific Loon 11 (northbound)
- Ashy Storm-Petrel 3
- Black Storm-Petrel 800
- Sooty Shearwater 1200
- Pink-footed Shearwater 50
- Black-vented Shearwater 8
- Cocos Booby 4
- Brandt’s Cormorant 3
- Brown Pelican 40
- Blue Whale 1
–Paul Lehman, Bruce Rideout, Dan Jehl, Matt Sadowski, Bridget Spencer, San Diego
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