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<DIV>Captain Phil Anderson saw the weather forecast for the 29th looked iffy and
changed the date to the 28th. </DIV>
<DIV>Fourteen birders were able to make this rescheduled trip. This was a great
change because we had excellent seas all day with no rain. </DIV>
<DIV>Many of the birders were new to pelagic trips and saw many species of birds
and 10 species of mammals! </DIV>
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<DIV>Our first few hours were somewhat slow in numbers of birds, but this was a
good time to focus on the more common species, </DIV>
<DIV>such as Sooty Shearwater, Common Murre, hybrid gulls, Rhinoceros Auklets
and many migrating Pacific Loons. </DIV>
<DIV>As we got out into deeper waters, closer to the shelf, we started getting
the true pelagic birds that most came to see. </DIV>
<DIV>Pink-footed Shearwaters, a few Short-tailed Shearwaters, Northern Fulmars,
Cassin’s Auklets and 16 PARAKEET AUKLETS that most got to see, however, always
flying away from the boat. </DIV>
<DIV>Further out we came across two shrimp boats using large baskets lowered
into deep water. We then encountered our first Black-footed Albatross and
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels. </DIV>
<DIV>The week before, we had few migrating phalaropes and Sabine’s Gulls.
However, in this area and out by our chum spot, </DIV>
<DIV>we got good numbers of both Red and Red-necked Phalaropes in breeding
plumage, and migrating Sabine’s Gulls. </DIV>
<DIV>One of the highlights, near here, was the sighting of 15 Risso’s
Dolphins(Grampus grisieus) that fed very close to the boat. </DIV>
<DIV>Their rounded bent dorsal fin and all the body scarring were key
identifying marks. We didn’t observe any last year. </DIV>
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<DIV>Our trip back, we had another mammal highlight when we spotted roughly 250
Pacific White-sided Dolphins. </DIV>
<DIV>Phil slowly motored into the area and we had dolphins everywhere, surely a
highlight for many. </DIV>
<DIV>The bird highlight was a flying Tufted Puffin that was hoped for by many of
the birders. </DIV>
<DIV>Also a Parasitic Jaeger zipped by that only a few saw. In shore we had our
first Heermann’s Gull of the year and six Brown Pelicans just returning for the
summer. </DIV>
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<DIV>Some numbers of birds observed: Black-footed Albatross-31, Northern
Fulmar-5, Pink-footed Shearwater-28, Sooty Shearwater-962, </DIV>
<DIV>Short-tailed Shearwater-9, Fork-tailed Storm Petrel-23, Red-necked
Phalarope-136, Red Phalarope-65, Common Murre-126, </DIV>
<DIV>Pigeon Guillemot-4, Cassin’s Auklet-18, Rhinoceros Auklet-126, Sabine’s
Gull-31, Bonaparte’s Gull-12, Arctic Tern-1.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mammal numbers: Humpback Whale-1, Gray Whale-5, Harbor Porpoise-1, Dall’s
Porpoise-17, Harbor Seal-2, Elephant Seal-1(observed by Scott), California Sea
Lion-3 and Steller’s Sea Lion-24. </DIV>
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<DIV>For complete numbers of all species seen on this trip, to make reservations
and any other information, please visit our website at <A
href="http://www.westportseabirds.com">www.westportseabirds.com</A></DIV>
<DIV>Most up coming trips are already full, however there might be some extra
added in August. A huge thank you to all that came on the trip!</DIV>
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<DIV>Spotters were: Scott Mills, Gene Revelas and myself. Boat personnel and
spotters were Phil and Chris Anderson.</DIV>
<DIV>On behalf of Westport Seabirds, </DIV>
<DIV>Bruce LaBar</DIV>
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