Date: 6/16/25 8:34 pm From: Pete Sole <pete...> Subject: [MBBIRDS] Sooty's on the Bay!
Hi folks,
Late this afternoon, we went down to the ocean to see SOOTY SHEARWATERs
on the Monterey Bay. My silly wild a__ guess is that there were some 50k
to 100k, (probably many more), Sooty's out on the water. They were
visible about half way out to the horizon from Seacliff State Beach, up
on the bluff. The lines of birds flying and resting on the water,
extended at least half way across the bay, north west to south east.
What a spectacle! According to Cornell's Birds of the World species
description: "When not breeding the Sooty Shearwater embarks upon one of
largest mass migrations known."
To learn more about the amazing life story of these long distance
migrants, see this link:
