[CINC] Condor Report--Oct. 20, 2011

[Barbara Hilburn]

> Hello Naturalists:
> 
> Sightings:
   5 Humpbacks--Lunge feeding, surface feeding, fluking, slow traveling
   1 Minke
>  About 100 common dolphins
>  Sea Lions

> Naturalists:
> Valerie O. 
   Don G.--PID
> Barbara H.
> 
> Crew:
> Capt. Mat
> Dennis 
   Dave

> Details:
> 
> The statistics above do not describe today's amazing events.  On an Eastern run between the coast and the oil platforms (off Ventura), we encountered repeated feeding frenzies, with crowds of birds
> (Brown pelicans, red-neck phalaropes, cormorants, and gulls) flying in, circling and diving in concentrated areas.  Humpbacks were lunge and surface feeding, and common dolphins and sea lions
> were swimming in and feeding.  It was quite a show!  Visitors from Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tennessee, and Colorado were entranced and delighted, as were we, the naturalists.


> Barbara Hilburn
> 
> 
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