September 8th, 2007. Monterey Bay, CA.
Black Storm-petrel Oceanodroma melina. (c.150).

Hundreds seen during a 'Shearwater Journeys' dedicated pelagic, most of them around an especially large mixed raft of storm-petrels the vast majority of which were Ashies.


Images taken through
Canon Powershot A540 using Leica 8 x 42 binoculars.










Black Storm-petrels with some Ashy.



Black Storm-petrels with a few Ashy.







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