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Shearwaters from Shore

10,000 Birds

When I was a new birder, I adopted Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay as a “patch.”. There were also countless Brown Pelicans, Western Gulls, and Heermann’s Gulls, creating quite the cacophony. Bonus : A couple of years earlier, a blue whale washed up several miles south of Half Moon Bay, at Bean Hollow State Beach.