Half Moon Bay Pelagic

Although I finally met Debi Shearwater, the weekend's second pelagic was not as good as the first. This was a 10 hour trip but following a sighting of Marbled Murrelets as we left the harbour, began with a straight 2 hours into the Pacific in which we saw very little. The real highlight was getting great views of all four skuas - South Polar Skua and Pomarine, Parasitic and Long-tailed Jaegers. We saw a couple of Northern Fulmar, had a couple of brief sightings of storm petrels and came across an area with many phalaropes on the water. We did not see any cetaceans but Northern Fur Seal was a new mammal for the weekend.

Black-footed Albatross