Pink-footed Shearwaters were abundant.

Pink-footed Shearwater

Black-footed Albatross

Dark-morph Northern Fulmar

Blue Shark

Humpback Whale

Dark Morph Northern Fulmar

Pink-footed Shearwater

Stellar's Sea Lion This is an endangered species.

Adult Parasitic Jaeger

Rhinocerus Auklet still with its horns from breeding plumage.

Black-footed Albatross

Black-footed Albatross

Cassin's Auklet

Breaching Humpback Whale

Black-footed Albatross

Adult Sabine's Gull

Adult Long-tailed Jaeger

Dark-morph Northern Fulmar

Adult Parasitic Jaeger

Juvenile Common Murre

Adult Parasitic Jaeger

Second cycle Long-tailed Jaeger

Ashy Storm-Petrel

Humpback Whale

Black-footed Albatross

Adult Sabine's Gull

Adult Long-tailed Jaeger

Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters

Adult Pigeon Guillemot

Buller's Shearwater

Adult Parasitic Jaeger

Juvenile Parasitic Jaeger

Ashy Storm-Petrel

Humpback Whales

South Polar Skua chasing a California Gull

Adult Pomarine Jaeger

Light-morph Northern Fulmar Light-morph birds were far less common.

Pink-footed Shearwater

Adult Pigeon Guillemot

Tufted Puffin

Black-footed Albatross

Buller's Shearwater

Ashy Storm-Petrels with one Wilson's and two Black Storm Petrels (can you find them?) We estimated about 4000 of these, and this is just a taste of what it looked like. This is probably the bulk of the world population of this species which only breeds off the San Francisco coast.

Humpback Whale

South Polar Skua

First cycle Heerman's Gull

Adult Common Murre molting into basic plumage.

Brandt's Cormorant