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Location Sooke--Otter Point
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Owner David M. Bell

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  0.3 km

Totals

65
Species Observed
+3 other taxa, 25,994 individuals

Observations

  1. American Wigeon

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    female east

  2. Lesser Scaup

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    pair east with COMU

  3. Harlequin Duck

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    pair east

  4. Surf Scoter

    Number observed:  684

    Details

    84 east, ~600 off muir creek

  5. White-winged Scoter

    Number observed:  22

    Details

    east

  6. Anna's Hummingbird

    Number observed:  2

  7. Black Oystercatcher

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    west

  8. Rhinoceros Auklet

    Number observed:  449

    Details

    Rough count of 349 eastbound, plus ~100 on water near end of count. Likely missed quite a few while trying to count/document the STTS movement

  9. Marbled Murrelet

    Number observed:  12

    Details

    east

  10. Pigeon Guillemot

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    east

  11. Common Murre

    Number observed:  9175

    Details

    Rough count of 2975 eastbound and ~6200 on water near the end of the count

  12. Ancient Murrelet

    Number observed:  22

    Details

    singles and small groups east

  13. Black-legged Kittiwake

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Adult east 0941 - small gull with buoyant flight, shallow wingbeats, wingtips 'dipped in ink'

  14. Bonaparte's Gull

    Number observed:  11

    Details

    10 east, 1 foraging off Gordon Beach

  15. Heermann's Gull

    Number observed:  16

    Details

    east/in frenzies

  16. Short-billed Gull

    Number observed:  115

    Details

    likely undercounted, mix of east/west

  17. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    1cy west

  18. California Gull

    Number observed:  3500

    Details

    east/in frenzies for the most part, good numbers off Gordon Beach - estimate

  19. Glaucous-winged Gull

    Number observed:  800

    Details

    estimate

  20. Western x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)

    Number observed:  100

    Details

    estimate

  21. Iceland Gull (Thayer's)

    Number observed:  6

    Details

    likely more

  22. gull sp.

    Number observed:  4000

    Details

    distant/in frenzies, wasn't paying as much attention to the gulls today with the shearwater movement

  23. Red-necked Grebe

    Number observed:  5

    Details

    3 east, 2 west

  24. Western Grebe

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    on water to the west of the point

  25. Red-throated Loon

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    1,2 east

  26. Pacific Loon

    Number observed:  93

    Details

    83 east, ~10 on the water near end of count

  27. Common Loon

    Number observed:  4

    Details

    east

  28. Sooty Shearwater

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    only one - stood out among the STTS crowd with longer, lankier profile, relatively slow flight

  29. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Number observed:  6685

    Details

    Ongoing incursion of this species into the strait. Good numbers moving right as I got set up; not easily countable individually without ignoring other species so I did 1-minute counts every 7 minutes through a stationary scope from 0730-0915 when a large batch of them headed west out of a feeding frenzy that had formed to the east of my sight line. Still trickling eastward when I left but numbers after 0915 are left out of this count to avoid double-counting. Total derived from the average of each pair of counts multiplied by the 7 minutes to approximate the area under the curve (=6535) and adding ~150 individuals seen before I started this count method. 1-minute counts as follows:

    0730 - 39
    0737 - 127
    0744 - 159
    0751 - 201
    0758 - 99
    0805 - 114
    0812 - 68
    0819 - 66
    0826 - 57
    0833 - 3
    0840 - 6
    0847 - 4
    0854 - 0
    0901 - 1
    0908 - 3
    0915 - 0 (164 west) - numbers after this excluded from total
    0922 - 37 (2 west)
    0929 - 5
    0936 - 7
    0943 - 1
    0950 - 9

    Flight line was initially about 700-800m offshore allowing for great views through the scope, slowly drifted out and by 0915 was closer to 1.5km, by end of count the flight line was about 2km or so out. Dark shearwaters, many clearly showing uniform silvery underwings, pale chins (and upper chests on some); flight style much zippier, more erratic and with much more flapping than SOSH; overall shape more compact with shorter front and rear ends, wings often held slightly kinked.

  30. Brandt's Cormorant

    Number observed:  117

    Details

    east

  31. Pelagic Cormorant

    Number observed:  7

    Details

    east

  32. Double-crested Cormorant

    Number observed:  10

    Details

    east

  33. Brown Pelican

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Juv east just offshore 0950

  34. Bald Eagle

    Number observed:  1

  35. Red-tailed Hawk

    Number observed:  1

  36. Belted Kingfisher

    Number observed:  1

  37. Red-breasted Sapsucker

    Number observed:  1

  38. Downy Woodpecker (Pacific)

    Number observed:  1

  39. Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)

    Number observed:  3

  40. Steller's Jay

    Number observed:  2

  41. Common Raven

    Number observed:  3

  42. Chestnut-backed Chickadee

    Number observed:  9

  43. Bushtit (Pacific)

    Number observed:  8

  44. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Number observed:  4

  45. Golden-crowned Kinglet

    Number observed:  21

  46. Red-breasted Nuthatch

    Number observed:  4

  47. Brown Creeper

    Number observed:  1

  48. Pacific Wren

    Number observed:  6

  49. Bewick's Wren

    Number observed:  1

  50. European Starling

    Number observed:  4

  51. Varied Thrush

    Number observed:  1

  52. Hermit Thrush

    Number observed:  2

  53. American Robin

    Number observed:  12

  54. Evening Grosbeak

    Number observed:  1

  55. Purple Finch (Western)

    Number observed:  4

  56. Red Crossbill (Western Hemlock or type 3)

    Number observed:  6

  57. Red Crossbill (Douglas-fir or type 4)

    Number observed:  5

  58. Pine Siskin

    Number observed:  8

  59. Fox Sparrow (Sooty)

    Number observed:  6

  60. Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

    Number observed:  8

  61. White-crowned Sparrow (pugetensis)

    Number observed:  1

  62. Golden-crowned Sparrow

    Number observed:  5

  63. Song Sparrow

    Number observed:  2

  64. Spotted Towhee

    Number observed:  3

  65. Red-winged Blackbird

    Number observed:  4

  66. Brewer's Blackbird

    Number observed:  1

  67. Orange-crowned Warbler

    Number observed:  1

  68. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)

    Number observed:  2