Saturday 3 May 2008

3rd May 2008 At sea off the Aleutians

Passed an Aleutian peninsula mid-morning with six large Whales seen breaching

Black-footed Albatross 7
Laysan Albatross 1
Fulmar 500
Short-tailed Shearwater 1,000
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 30
Pelagic Cormorant 1
Long-tailed Duck 4
American White-winged Scoter 2
Pomarine Skua 2
Arctic Skua 1
Sabine's Gull 2
Glaucous-winged Gull 20
Kittiwake 100
Arctic Tern 4
Guillemot 100
Brunnich's Guillemot 1
Ancient Murrelet 100
Parakeet Auklet 30
Tufted Puffin 15
Black-backed Wagtail 2
Lapland Bunting 5


Tufted Puffin off the Aleutians