Date: 10/7/25 9:10 am From: Jonathan Feenstra via groups.io <feenstra...> Subject: [LACoBirds] LA Birders pelagic trip 10/5/25
LA Birders:
Last Sunday was the LA Birders' half-day pelagic trip aboard Navegante from King Harbor, Redondo Beach. In our 5-hour trip we traversed Redondo Canyon going west, crossed the shipping lane going first south, then north-northwest on return to follow feeding flocks, then jammed it back to the harbor when we ran out of time.
We had a good diversity of birds, and notably high numbers of jaegers, double digits of Pomarines. We also had at least 2 Short-tailed Shearwaters, not an annual species (or, at least, not identified annually), including one that allowed close study. A single Rhinoceros Auklet and a Craveri's Murrelet represented the alcids. We saw a few Black-vented Shearwaters, but they have not been present in any numbers yet this fall. Perhaps 10 humpback whales were seen as were hundreds of common dolphin.
As noted from several recent trips in the area, the inshore waters, including Redondo Canyon, were pretty dead, but marine life was concentrated in some nice flocks off the edge of the escarpment. There's an Island Packers trip next Sunday out of Ventura, so that's your next chance to get out there.
