No blog for yesterday, travelling day, Vancouver back to San Francisco.
Bodega bay pelagic today. Last one, so heres hoping!!!!
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| American White Pelican |
This time the pelagic started quite well, we had Double-crested & Brandts Cormorants in the harbour area, also American White Pelicans, and the obvious Gulls.
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| American White Pelican |
Then, back to normality, fog and dull light, pooh!!!! We went a far old way not seeing anything due to the fog. The odd time it cleared, we got lots of Phalaropes, in good sized flocks. Then a Pomarine Skua, and then a bit better, a Black-footed Albatross, then a lifer, South Polar Skua, just in time the fog lifted, briefly anyway!
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| South Polar Skua |
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| South Polar Skua |
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| Black-footed Albatross |
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| Red-necked Phalaropes |
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| Grey Phalarope |
Then at last, some bright weather, and clear skies. Now we want some birds. First some Pink-footed Shearwaters, then a couple of Storm-petrels, then one of the highlights, a juvenile Long-tailed Skua, very nice.
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| Long-tailed Skua |
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| Pink-footed Shearwater |
Then the real excitement started, huge flocks of Storm-petrels were found. Containing Ashy, Black, Wilsons, and (at last) Fork-tailed Storm-petrels. The last one a lifer for both of us. Estimated totals in all the flocks were 8,000+, amazing.
Towards the end of the trip, we managed to find some feeding Whales. There were up to 50 Humpbacks, we also had Blue Whale, Rissos & Pacific White-sided Dolphins, along with hundreds of California Sea-lions, this was fantastic too.
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| Storm-petrel flock |
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| Ashy & Fork-tailed Storm-petrel flock |
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| Ashy & Fork-tailed Storm-petrel flock |
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| Fork-tailed Storm-petrel |
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| Fork-tailed Storm-petrel |
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| Ashy Storm-petrel |
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| Black Storm-petrel |
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