From: Jamie Simmons at Corvallis, Oregon
(jamie_simmons at hp6400.desk.hp.com)

Anyone going on or having been on a West coast pelagic trip
might be interested in the following, even though it's not
about birds:

The 8/94 issue of _Natural History_ magazine has an article
titled "Swimming Heads" about molas (a.k.a. ocean sunfish or
mola mola) that is illustrated with several fascinating
photos. During Greg Gillson's recent (8/27) pelagic trip out
of Newport I observed 3 molas, each of which was only about
3 feet long. The article mentions young being about that
size while adults can weigh as much as 5000 lbs.!

I didn't see any life birds, but that was a great life fish!

-Jamie