black-footed albatross

One of my first Black-footed Albatrosses (lifer #321), among several seen that day on a pelagic trip out of Eureka, California with HSU's ornithology class. Besides the albatross, the two other lifers I saw that day were a Glaucous Gull (#320) in the bay as we departed (for which I have terrible...

You'll be seeing more of this one, just one of four lifers for me this past weekend. I took a leap and went out on a boat ride off the coast of Ft. Bragg. Lucky for me the ocean was pretty calm. I'll stick to the lake from now on but I did enjoy this one-in-a-lifetime trip.

The first black-footed albatross we encountered travelling off the coast of Baja California on the way to the Islas San Benitos

Haven't posted here for a while - thought I would add some of my recent life birds. Took this on Aug 14 near the continental shelf off of San Francisco. The boat was rocking and rolling with big swells, so it isn't too sharp. But I liked the impression the photo leaves of the albatross is...

The albatross has been following our Cruise ship all the way from Hawaii to Vancouver. Most of them are the Black-fotted, but on Day 2 there are some Laysan.

When a few albatross followed the Ship all day I had to take a few photographs. This was the day before we crossed the Date Line so the next day was also 24 March 2007!

Taken during Pelagic trip out of Westport WA, 60km from shore out in the ocean.

Taken during a Pelagic trip out of Westport WA, 60 km from shore, at the level of the Continental shelf.