Shorebird Festival - Pelagic Trip 8.25.12

My first Pelagic trip ever!  Lets get right to it!

Near shore - Red-Necked Phalaropes.  Much further in we saw Red Phalaropes (no pics, unfortunately).

The end of the jetty.  (had to add some color in all the grey-ness :)

A big splash.  It was hard to hold the camera still, we were rocking so hard the whole time.  My sides are still sore and I fell down at one point.

I'm hoping this is a Marbled Murrelet.  We saw one, but we also saw numerous Common Murre.

A trio of.... some stuff... Shearwaters, other..? Do'h! 

Sooty Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Northern Fulmar 

A shearwater and juvenile gull compete for center stage.  As you can see, a wave behind them won out, as it's the only thing in focus. hehe.

Black-Footed Albatross!!! It's 7 foot wingspan was dwarfed by the expansive ocean.

Black-Footed Albatross.

And again! :D

Fork-Tailed Storm-Petrel!  This guy was so fast, small and flying around like a mad man, I cannot believe I caught him.

Twice! Yay!

Juvenile Gull - either Western or California, I think... 

A frenzy of feeding back near the shore.

Brandt's Cormorant. 

Not mentioned:

• Western Gulls 
• Double-Crested Cormorants
• American Crows
• Pigeon Guillemots 
• Common Loon
• Rhinoceros Auklet
• Black Scoter
• Cassin's Auklet*
• Pink-Footed Shearwaters*
• Parasitic Jaeger* 
• Pelagic Cormorants
• Pomarine Jaeger*
• Black Turnstones
• Brown Pelicans
• Pacific Loon*
• Sabine's Gull*

*Lifers! Soooo many.