Date: 6/4/25 8:03 pm From: Brian Fitch via groups.io <fogeggs...> Subject: Re: [SFBirds] Sooties
After I sent my message this morning, the shearwaters circled back and
spent a while in a feeding gyre, roughly 700 of them, before settling onto
the water for a second while. The flock eventually took off heading south.
The Snowy Egret number peaked at nine at once in the baths, but more were
passing back and forth throughout the watch. Also present was a Rhino
Auklet on the surface out by the rocks, and a lone male Surf Scoter with a
nearly complete white mohawk. It reminded me of one of the white capped
manakin species.
Non birds included a Humpback just beyond the rocks early, and then an
adult Gray Whale that spent thirty minutes between the Sutro terrace and
Seal Rocks. It surfaced in water I didn’t know was deep enough for a full
sized whale, then carefully submerged without any diving motion, many times
over the half hour before simply disappearing.
Brian Fitch
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM Brian Fitch via groups.io <fogeggs=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Hundreds of Sooty Shearwaters just appeared off of the Sutro Baths and are
> streaming southward.
> Brian Fitch
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