Jerry,

Lucky dog! I've taken the Faunteleroy-Vashon, Fauntleroy-Southworth, and
Seattle-Vashon ferries each for one RT this past week with no Leach's
Storm Petrel and perhaps a very distant view of a half-dozen suspected
Red Phalaropes between the Vashon ferry dock and Blake Is. The bird
concentrations were always about 1/2 mile away from our line of travel.

Gene Hunn.

On Wed, 27 Dec 1995 Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net wrote:

> 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
>