Hi Tweets,

An adult Sabine's Gull in pre-Basic Molt flew past the Lighthouse at
Lighthouse Marine Park this afternoon. An Arctic Tern in Def. Alternate
plumage, located by Karen Irving, was on the pilings at the park parking lot
with about 500 Common Terns, 3 Franklin's Gulls, and about 300 Bonaparte's
Gulls. Included in the last were about 25-30 Juvenile-Basic 1 birds, 5 of
which were *very* fresh juveniles still patterned with the warm brown
feather-tips which wear off so quickly.

Another highligh was a perfect, bright, complete double-arched rainbow
against a large local squall to the north.

Conditions: temp: 15 degrees C; wind: S-SW 35-40 km/hr; barom: Low, rising;
cloud: very local cumulonimbus squalls, scattered cumulus; precip:
occasional light to heavy showers; sea: 1.5-2.0 meter chop with whitecaps
and a heavy rip SW and W of the Point; tide: flood.

PACIFIC LOON 1
COMMON LOON 5 molting ads
DOUBLE-CR. CORMORANT 14
PELAGIC CORMORANT 4
GREATER SCAUP 2 F
HARLEQUIN DUCK 7 3M 4F
SURF SCOTER 35 25 in high migr. flocks
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 16 14M 2F
BALD EAGLE 1 jv
PARASITIC JAEGER 1 ad, light-morph
FRANKLIN'S GULL 3 3 Bsc 1 Molt
BONAPARTE'S GULL c350 most Def or Bsc1, c25 Juv
RING-BILLED GULL 2 Ad.
CALIFORNIA GULL 35 mostly ad or juv
GLAUCOUS-W. GULL 125 " " " "
SABINE'S GULL 1 ad, pre-Bsc Molt
COMMON TERN c600 every molt state but pre-Alt; 8 jv
ARCTIC TERN 1 ad, worn Alt.
COMMON MURRE 9 5 ad, 3jv,
RHINOCEROS AUKLET 14 3 ad, 1 unaged
BARN SWALLOW 5
SAVANNAH SPARROW 2


Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net