Pictures
Blue-footed Booby
Black-vented Shearwaters
Common Dolphins
Brewster's Brown Boobies
Los Coronados Islands
Sunday: all night traveling west, awoke to rough seas, chummed various places, headed back toward San Diego at dark, arrived at the dock at 6 a.m.
Blue-footed Booby
Black-vented Shearwaters
Common Dolphins
Brewster's Brown Boobies
Los Coronados Islands
Blue Whale close to the boat lunge feeding on the surface; much larger than any other whale I've seen, absolutely spectacular
Five Pomarine Jaegers in view for over half an hour, sometimes flying over the boat
Buller's Shearwater flying over huge swells Sunday morning
Thousands (10,000+?) of Black-vented Shearwaters
Craveri's Murrelet for my 1,000th world bird
Species list: (asterisks = lifers)
MAMMALS
Blue Whale*
Risso's Dolphin
Common Dolphin
Bottlenose Dolphin
Northern Elephant Seal
California Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
FISH
Mola mola
Flying fish species
BIRDS
Xantus's Murrelet*
Craveri's Murrelet*
Pink-footed Shearwater*
Buller's Shearwater*
Black-vented Shearwater*
Blue-footed Booby*
Brown Booby (Brewster's subspecies)
Sabine's Gull*
Black Storm-Petrel*
Elegant Tern*
Sooty Shearwater
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Heermann's Gull
Western Gull
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Royal Tern
Peregrine Falcon
Wandering Tattler
Spotted Sandpiper
Eared Grebe
California Gull
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Black-crowned Night-Heron
ON LAND
Marbled Godwit
Anna's Hummingbird
Willet
Orange-crowned Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
Birds seen on the trip but not identifiable or unseen by me: Arctic Tern, Least Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Red-billed Tropicbird