Tweeters

The Port Townsend Marine Science Center's Protection Island Birding Cruises
sighted the following birds on July 27 & 28 and August 3 & 4:

Tufted Puffin
Caspian Tern
Great Blue Heron
Black Bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black Turnstone
Rhino Auklet
Sanderling
Black Oystercatcher
Bald Eagle
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White Winged Scoter
Common Murre
Bonaparte Gull
Heerman's Gull
Mew Gull
Double Crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Pigeon Guillemont
Glaucus Winged Gull (& chicks)
Northwestern Crow
Starling

Aditionally, we also spotted Harbor Seals & an Elephant Seal (female).

Additional cruises are scheduled for Saturdays in October & November

Peter Badame
PTMSC