The San Diego pelagic trip on Saturday, Sep 6th, on board “Legacy” and sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon Society, took place under good sea and weather conditions. We went out past the 9-Mile Bank to the 30-Mile Bank and The Corner. A good variety of the expected and uncommon seasonal species were found. Highlights included small numbers of Townsend’s and Least Storm-Petrels, an Ashy, and better numbers of Leach’s, a Cocos Booby, numbers of Long-tailed Jaegers and a good jaeger show overall, and Craveri’s Murrelet. Large numbers of Pink-footed Shearwaters were on the margins of the Nine-Mile Bank.
Totals for the day once we were over a mile offshore were:
- Red-necked Phalarope 28
- Pomarine Jaeger 11+
- Parasitic Jaeger 12
- Long-tailed Jaeger 7
- jaeger sp. 12
- Craveri’s Murrelet 3
- murrelet sp. 4
- Sabine’s Gull 10
- Heermann’s Gull 60
- Western Gull 600
- California Gull 2
- Common Tern 70 (good count)
- Arctic Tern 2
- Elegant Tern 80
- Leach’s (Chapman’s) Storm-Petrel 13
- Leach’s (white-rumped) Storm-Petrel 3
- Townsend’s Storm-Petrel 5
- Leach’s/Townsend’s Storm-Petrel 10
- Ashy Storm-Petrel 1
- Black Storm-Petrel 650
- Least Storm-Petrel 5
- Sooty Shearwater 21
- Pink-footed Shearwater 2000 (good count)
- Black-vented Shearwater 95
- Cocos Booby 1
- Brandt’s Cormorant 120
- Double-crested Cormorant 18
- Brown Pelican 1600 (lots)
- Also: Surfbird, Reddish Egret, N. Elephant Seal, whale spouts
Paul Lehman, Nancy Christensen, Dan Jehl, Dan King, Paul Mulholland, Gary Nunn, Nick Thorpe, San Diego
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