Date: 5/27/26 10:54 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] La Jolla seawatch: Nazca and 5 Cocos Boobies, lots of birds (including a couple record highs)
A Weds. AM La Jolla seawatch attended by four birders saw perhaps the largest number of feeding-frenzy feeders that I have ever seen there. We set perhaps the all-time county record total of Brown Pelicans at a single site with 3000 birds (2600 standing on the rocks and cliff alone in the early morning), as well as a spring-record 420 Heermann's Gulls (95% one-year-olds), as well as 1600 Brandt's Cormorants. The largest numbers of birds on the rocks were in the first hour or so of light, slowly declining thereafter. The offshore frenzies were multiple at a time and went on and on all morning long, from 5:40AM to 10AM, and also contained some 5000 Sooty Shearwaters, 2000 Elegant Terns, and a total of ca. 5 Cocos Boobies. The single star of the morning show was the near-adult Nazca Booby extremely close to shore and first spotted by Jay D. as it flew by heading south. Still a small number of Pacific Loons heading north. One jaeger sp.
Paul Lehman et al., San Diego
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