Hello all.

I've just returned from birding the OC Inlet and surrounding area for a day 
and a half. Heat and haze held me up a bit, but it was a great trip. 
Flyover Whimbrels were the biggest highlight as was the Gannet.   

Highlights:

OC Inlet: (8/16, 1400-2000)

Double-crested Cormorant: 11
Great Blue Heron: 1  flyover
Black-crowned Night Heron: 2
Laughing Gull: c. 400
Ring-billed Gull: c. 30 
Herring Gull: c. 200
Great Black-backed Gull: 12
Common Tern: 20+
Royal Tern: 20+
Osprey: 1
NORTHERN GANNET: 1  Not far off shore
Brown Pelican: 24
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 10
Peep sp.: 20
Spotted Sandpiper: 6
Ruddy Turnstone: 12
WHIMBREL: 3  Flyover 

Route 50 Bridge and Islands scoped from bridge: 8/17, 0800-1000

Double-created Cormorant: 29
Great Blue Heron: 6
Great Egret: 3
Snowy Egret: 2
Laughing Gull: c. 200
Ring-billed Gull: 20
Herring Gull: c. 75
Great Black-backed Gull: 10
Common Tern: 31
Forster's Tern: 2
Royal Tern: 16
Turkey Vulture: 6
Osprey: 1
Brown Pelican: 44  On the big island
Black-bellied Plover: 3 flyover
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 14
Least Sandpiper: 1
Solitary Sandpiper: 1
Spotted Sandpiper: 3
Ruddy Turnstone: 14  Rocks along the bay and flyovers
Short-billed Dowitcher: 11 flyover birds

Good birding,

Matt Grey
Pasadena