Hi Birders,
About 28 birders were aboard the Ruby Princess for 2 days of deep water birding 4-5 May. On the 4th we were off southern Monterey County at daybreak, and ended the day off northern Menodcino County. Conditions started off calm, but ended with blustery north winds and sea fog. On the 5th we started in southern Curry County and our last checklist just barely got into Clatsop County. Conditions were rough, with 50 knot headwinds and big seas. I did eBird checklists every half hour for the two days, and all of those are in now and shared. Highlights were a slug of Pterodroma petrels that included 2 Hawaiian, 32 Cook's, and 18 Murphy's, the majority of which were found beginning in San Francisco County and continuing up through Marin, with scattered Murphy's the second day throughout Oregon. I think I've loaded in all my identifiable photos of these, but still have to load photos of common migrants. Parakeet Auklets were seen by one observer in Oregon waters, and those will be added independently by him since the rest of us missed them.
Here are some of the highlight checklists:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklistsubID=S29435292
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklistsubID=S29435309
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklistsubID=S29451212
Trip Summary:
eBird Checklist Summary for: May 4, 2016, 4:20 AM to May 5, 2016, 11:30 PM
Number of Checklists: 53 Number of Taxa: 41
1 Pacific Loon 1 Common Loon 2 loon sp. 4 Laysan Albatross 451 Black-footed Albatross 40 Northern Fulmar 18 Murphy's Petrel 2 Hawaiian Petrel 32 Cook's Petrel 1 Pterodroma sp. 136 Pink-footed Shearwater 3895 Sooty Shearwater 48 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 402 Leach's Storm-Petrel 55 Ashy Storm-Petrel 9 storm-petrel sp. 4 Dunlin 30 peep sp. 24 Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 452 Red-necked Phalarope 80 Red Phalarope 59 phalarope sp. 1 shorebird sp. 1 South Polar Skua 12 Pomarine Jaeger 7 Parasitic Jaeger 2 Long-tailed Jaeger 19 jaeger sp. 165 Common Murre 71 Cassin's Auklet 50 Rhinoceros Auklet 12 alcid sp. 234 Sabine's Gull 18 Western Gull 2 Herring Gull 1 Glaucous-winged Gull 6 gull sp. 8 Arctic Tern 2 Common/Arctic Tern 1 tern sp. 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove (road the boat for the whole first day)
Checklist Locations: Checklists included in this summary: (1): 35.7941x-122.1718 - May 4, 2016, 5:57 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 5:57 AM (2): 35.9275x-122.3139 - May 4, 2016, 6:30 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 6:30 AM (3): 36.0288x-122.4304 - May 4, 2016, 6:57 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 6:57 AM (4): 36.1827x-122.5630 - May 4, 2016, 7:33 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 7:33 AM (5): 36.3443x-122.7072 - May 4, 2016, 8:11 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 8:11 AM (6): 36.4694x-122.8023 - May 4, 2016, 8:38 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 8:38 AM (7): 36.5631x-122.8752 - May 4, 2016, 8:58 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 8:58 AM (8): 36.7546x-123.0254 - May 4, 2016, 9:38 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 9:33 AM (9): 36.8633x-123.1068 - May 4, 2016, 10:01 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 10:01 AM (10): 36.9995x-123.2126 - May 4, 2016, 10:29 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 10:29 AM (11): 37.1376x-123.3179 - May 4, 2016, 10:59 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 10:59 AM (12): 37.3246x-123.4624 - May 4, 2016, 11:39 AM Date: May 4, 2016, 11:30 AM (13): 37.5285x-123.6214 - May 4, 2016, 12:22 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 12:10 PM (14): 37.5847x-123.6652 - May 4, 2016, 12:34 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 12:34 PM (15): 37.6934x-123.7496 - May 4, 2016, 12:58 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 12:58 PM (16): 37.9116x-123.8752 - May 4, 2016, 1:41 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 1:41 PM (17): 38.0271x-123.9324 - May 4, 2016, 2:05 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 2:05 PM (18): 38.1549x-123.9958 - May 4, 2016, 2:32 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 2:32 PM (19): 38.2723x-124.0544 - May 4, 2016, 2:57 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 2:57 PM (20): 38.4158x-124.1262 - May 4, 2016, 3:28 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 3:28 PM (21): 38.5518x-124.1842 - May 4, 2016, 3:57 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 3:57 PM (22): 38.6986x-124.2448 - May 4, 2016, 4:27 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 4:27 PM (23): 38.8920x-124.3226 - May 4, 2016, 5:10 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 5:10 PM (24): 38.9920x-124.3621 - May 4, 2016, 5:33 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 5:33 PM (25): 39.1189x-124.4048 - May 4, 2016, 5:59 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 5:59 PM (26): 39.2764x-124.4532 - May 4, 2016, 6:30 PM Date: May 4, 2016, 6:30 PM (27): 42.2154x-124.8933 - May 5, 2016, 6:04 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 6:00 AM (28): 42.3154x-124.9039 - May 5, 2016, 6:30 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 6:30 AM (29): 42.4338x-124.9123 - May 5, 2016, 7:00 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 7:00 AM (30): 42.5558x-124.9229 - May 5, 2016, 7:30 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 7:30 AM (31): 42.6747x-124.9332 - May 5, 2016, 7:59 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 7:59 AM (32): 42.8072x-124.9431 - May 5, 2016, 8:29 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 8:29 AM (33): 42.9487x-124.9496 - May 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 9:00 AM (34): 43.0857x-124.9609 - May 5, 2016, 9:30 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 9:30 AM (35): 43.2335x-124.9702 - May 5, 2016, 10:01 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 10:01 AM (36): 43.3741x-124.9795 - May 5, 2016, 10:30 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 10:30 AM (37): 43.5298x-124.9884 - May 5, 2016, 11:00 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 11:00 AM (38): 43.6834x-125.0002 - May 5, 2016, 11:30 AM Date: May 5, 2016, 11:30 AM (39): 43.9165x-125.0144 - May 5, 2016, 12:16 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 12:16 PM (40): 43.9911x-125.0204 - May 5, 2016, 12:31 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 12:31 PM (41): 44.1383x-125.0325 - May 5, 2016, 1:00 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 1:00 PM (42): 44.2849x-125.0397 - May 5, 2016, 1:30 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 1:30 PM (43): 44.4270x-125.0489 - May 5, 2016, 1:58 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 1:58 PM (44): 44.6066x-125.0613 - May 5, 2016, 2:34 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 2:34 PM (45): 44.7716x-125.0731 - May 5, 2016, 3:06 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 3:00 PM (46): 44.8839x-125.0805 - May 5, 2016, 3:28 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 3:28 PM (47): 45.0362x-125.0932 - May 5, 2016, 3:59 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 3:59 PM (48): 45.1868x-125.1024 - May 5, 2016, 4:28 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 4:28 PM (49): 45.3464x-125.1137 - May 5, 2016, 5:01 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 5:01 PM (50): 45.4737x-125.1217 - May 5, 2016, 5:28 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 5:28 PM (51): 45.6154x-125.1356 - May 5, 2016, 5:57 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 5:57 PM (52): 45.7684x-125.1430 - May 5, 2016, 6:29 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 6:29 PM (53): 45.9707x-125.1587 - May 5, 2016, 7:10 PM Date: May 5, 2016, 7:00 PM
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Brian L. Sullivan
eBird Project Leader
www.ebird.org
Photo Editor
Birds of North America Online
http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA
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