A Princess cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver with about 15 birders aboard had the following species off California between s. Monterey and Mendocino Counties on 8 April:

GREAT SHEARWATER: 1 (right off bow in southern San Francisco County; photo obtained)

Laysan Albatross: 11 (1 MTY, 4 SF, 2 MRN, 1 SON, 3 MEN)

Murphy's Petrel: 9 (1 MTY, 5 SM, 1 SF, 1 MRN, 1 MEN)

Cook's Petrel: 77 (well spread all entire route; 28 MTY, 33 SM, 13 SF, 1 SON, 2 MEN)

Long-tailed Jaeger: 2 (very () early arriving adults: 1 off MTY and 1 off SF())

Also:

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel: 1 southerly off MTY

Leach's Storm-Petrel: 4 (scattered)

Misc totals: B-f Albatross: 27, N. Fulmar: 45, Sooty Shearwater: 475 (arriving), Pink-footed Shearwater: 35

Red-necked Phalarope: already 200 have arrived along entire route, on time or slightly early for moderate numbers

Sabine's Gull: 105 (fairly well spread out; would have been "early" just a few years ago, but no longer)

alcids: very low numbers

Brown Booby: 1 (adult in Port of Los Angeles on 7 Apr as we departed)
--Paul Lehman, San Diego