Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels, Red & Red-necked Phalaropes in the harbor right now!
9/15/16 Baird's Beaked Whales
Trip Report for 9/15/16 by Brian Sullivan
Near Shore Species (Monterey Harbor to Pt Pinos):
Common Loon, Brown-headed Cowbird, Brewer's Blackbird, European Starling, Barn Swallow, American Crow, Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon), California Gull, Western Gull, Heermann's Gull, Surfbird, Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher, Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron (Blue form), Brown Pelican, Brandt's Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Tern, Elegant Tern
Pelagic Species:
Black-footed Albatross, Northern Fulmar, Pink-footed Shearwater, Buller's Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Black-vented Shearwater, Ashy Storm-Petrel, Red-necked Phalarope, Pomarine Jaeger, Parasitic Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, Common Murre, Rhinoceros Auklet
Marine Mammal Sightings:
Humpback Whale, Baird’s Beaked Whale, Pacific White-sided Dolphin, Northern Fur Seal, Stellar Sea Lion, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Southern Sea Otter
The eBird lists can be found here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613553
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613555
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613556
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613557
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613558
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613559
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613563
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613564
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613565
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613567
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613568
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613569
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613570
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613571
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613574
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613576
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613577
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613578
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613548
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31613546
Trips Available for the remainder of 2016:
October 1st 7:30am-3:30pm $110 per person
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Black-footed Albatross gathered on the bay. A little narration from our friend Alvaro of Alvaro's Adventures.
Black-Footed Albatross feeding on a dead Sleeper Shark during our last Pelagic trip...