Thanks to the information on tweeters, Lorna and I took the $3.50 pelagic
trip out of Southworth on Christmas Day. I know for you Puget Sounders this
is old hat and you call it the 11 AM Vashon Is. ferry.

However, we had a great time--found a single Leach's Storm-petrel almost as
soon as we left Southworth. Many birds in the passage between Southworth
and Vashon Is., few between Fauntleroy and Vashon. Other birds included
several groups of Rhinoceros Auklets and one or two Ancient Murrelets. We
dipped on other tubenoses and Red Phalaropes.

The look at the storm-petrel was better than we had hoped for. The bird
traveled for several hundred yards in front of the ferry. It was a new bird
for both Lorna and me.

On Christmas Eve along I-90, we also saw a 1st year light-winged gull on
the south side of Cle Elum, but we were going too fast for a positive ID
(had to get to grandmothers before dark).

Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net
Wenatchee WA