ML613411491

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Observation details

Probably four total birds, but a minimum three count. First bird first observed distantly to the NNW struggling southbound in the wind at around 10:25. Observed for a couple minutes as it didn’t make a ton of progress, rising up a couple times fairly high in the air (getting cloud views behind it) allowing for good views of the underwings. I eventually lost track of the bird behind waves to the WNW around 10:30. At about 10:50, I noticed two individuals tracking one another both southbound distantly to the NNW. The winds had lightened somewhat by this time and the waves smaller making for much easier viewing. These could’ve constituted two new individuals (as the first bird easily could’ve gotten past me southbound without my noticing in the conditions present at the time) but I chose to discount one as potentially the earlier bird for the overall count. These birds ended up passing just beyond green-buoy distance and were never directly together but always within about one-and-a-half scope-lengths from one another. Poor digiscope obtained/attached of one of these birds. The final bird was seen after first being reported at RBSP and Carkeek being tracked all the way south from around the Snohomish line, finally making its way into view from WP at around 13:32, ~40 minutes after first being spotted from RBSP, and passing WP still southbound at 13:37. Great documentation of this bird (which passed within the green buoy) by the other folks who had joined at WP. All individuals were all-dark shearwaters with uniform dark underwings.

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