Birders,

Heroically sticking to my commitment to help out with a Cal State Northridge
marine tetrapods class trip instead of joining the throngs to look at a pretty
white gull in SLO Co., I spent most of the day today (7 Nov) aboard the RV
Yellowfin. We headed out from L. A. Harbor and followed the Palos Verdes
Escarpment up to Redondo Canyon, continued north to off El Segundo, then headed
out to mid-channel, getting back in through Angel's Gate at 2:30 p.m. Seabird
totals for selected species included:
Northern Fulmar - 2 - juveniles (one freshly dead)
Pink-footed Shearwater - 20
Black-vented Shearwater - 4000+ - beginning not far off Pt. Fermin and
continuing along the entire escarpment, with the largest flocks on the south rim
of Redondo Canyon
MANX SHEARWATER - 1 - in mid-channel, with only a few accompanying Black-vents;
coordinates were 33 38.010N, 118 20.700W
Pacific Loon - 35
Common Loon - 1
Red Phalarope - 29
Red-necked Phalarope - 3
Bonaparte's Gull - 450
Herring Gull - 6
Elegant Tern - 125 - surprisingly common for so late in fall
Parasitic Jaeger - 5
Pomarine Jaeger - 14
Common Murre - 3
Rhinoceros Auklet - 1
Tree Swallow - 1 - over Redondo Canyon

All in all, not quite equal to an Ivory Gull.

Kimball

Kimball L. Garrett
Section of Ornithology
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213-763-3368
kgarrett@...



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