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Location BBC Pelagic--26 Aug 2012-06 (just north of Welker Canyon)
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Owner Rob Fergus

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  55
  • Distance:  6 mi

Checklist Comments

Second day of BBC Pelagic trip. We began at Oceanographer Canyon where we chummed for three hours and had very productive results. Then we motored slowly east with a following sea towards Welker Canyon, and made another chumming stand along the deep wall of Welker Canyon. After some more productive chumming, we turned and headed north, stopping just a couple times for Audubon's Shearwaters and a couple other groups of birds. Seas 3-6 ft, slacking off to 1-3 ft once we were in cooler water on the shelf. Water temperatures around 78-79 F while in Shelf water, dropping slowly to 74 inshore and then abruptly to 62 when up on the shoals, which were quite foggy.

Totals

4
Species Observed
39 individuals

Observations

  1. Wilson's Storm-Petrel

    Number observed:  10

  2. Leach's Storm-Petrel

    Number observed:  6

  3. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    **rare; very close; photos; shows inner secondaries still not molting in, suggesting a fresh Grant's completing its molt (per Steve Howell).

    Photo by Marshall Iliff:

    Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

  4. Great Shearwater

    Number observed:  22