In addition to the remarkable albino pacific loon and one or more Clark's
grebes as reported by R. Rogers, the light was just right for beautiful
views of two male Eurasian wigeons, a couple of dozen old squaw ducks,
and an inordinate number of gaudy male Harlequin ducks. What a fantastic
birding day!

Maureen Ellis
Dept Environmental Health
UDUB


On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Russell Rogers wrote:

> >From Russell Rogers, Seattle WA, rrogers at halcyon.com
>
> On Sunday, March 26, I was on a boat trip that went around Bainbridge
> Island, lead by George Gerts. On the west side of the island off of Owl
> Point, we encountered a flock of about 250 Pacific Loons. In this flock
> was an almost pure white loon. It was the same size and shape of the
> other Pacific Loons nearby. It was nearly pure white with the exception
> of a little bit of pale rusty brown coloration on the nape and on the
> primary feathers. The bill was pale whitish brown color also, and to my
> best recollection, the eye was a simular pale whitish brown. It was
> difficult to study the bird at lenght as it was as skitish as the rest of
> the Loons, diving and resurfacing a good distance away from the boat. We
> tried to keep up with it and get a better extended look at it, but it
> proved to be very difficult.
>
> An other good bird seen on the trip was a Clark's Grebe. We saw upwards
> to 4200 Western Grebes in the course of the trip, so our chances of
> encountering a Clark's Grebe were pretty high. If we had the time to stop
> and carefully check each group of grebes that we encountered, I'm sure we
> would have found more.
>
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> Russell Rogers
> 4510 Glenn Way SW
> Seattle, WA 98116
> (206) 935-6280
> rrogers at halcyon.com
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