Date: 4/14/25 11:46 pm From: Naresh Satyan via groups.io <naresh.satyan...> Subject: Brants off Point Vicente April 14 [Re: [LACoBirds] Seawatching report from Leo Carrillo April 13]
Hi all,
I stopped by Point Vicente on Monday evening (April 14), and in the 55
minutes before sunset I had over 1600 Brants migrating up the coast. It was
overcast, good conditions for seawatching. I was a little surprised that
the previous high count of Brant for LA county on eBird was only 717, but
presumably only because of lack of seawatching coverage.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM Naresh Satyan via groups.io <naresh.satyan=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't really been finding/seeing any migrants (or even all that many
> birds) anywhere I've looked in the past couple of weeks, so I dragged
> myself out to go seawatching today. When I pulled up at Leo Carrillo Beach,
> it was overcast under a marine layer, mostly calm, and it looked like
> things were moving up the coast. Conditions were pretty good for
> seawatching. Over the next 3 hours I had 2327 Pacific Loons, 1800 Surf
> Scoters, 346 Brant, 75 California Gulls and a couple of other odds and ends
> (White-winged Scoter, Red-necked Grebe, Herring Gulls). I had several Royal
> Terns but no Elegant Terns. There were no actual seabirds (alcids,
> tubenoses, jaegers etc) to be found anywhere.
>
> eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S225417112 >
> Hope you all are finding more birds than I am!
>
> Naresh
>
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> Naresh Satyan
> Pasadena, CA
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