Tweeters:
The 4/19/97 cruise to Protection Island/Rat Island resulted in identifying
36 species, including two (2) which we had positive ID of for the 1st time
on these trips:
Greater Scaup in Killisut harbor (Rat Island)
Brant's Cormorant on the Bouy (sic) at Point Hudson

The code for the following list is:
P - Protection Island R - Rat Island Ph - Point Hudson

Common Loon - P R
Pacific Loon - P
Western Grebe - R
Red necked Grebe - P R
Horned Grebe - P
Double Crested Cormorant - P R
Pelagic cormorant - P R
G B Heron - P
Black Brandt - P R
White Winged scoter - P R
Black Scoter - P
Surf Scoter - P R
Harlequin Duck - P R
Oldsquaw - P
Bufflehead - P R
Red breasted merganser - P R
Black bellied plover - R
Black turnstone - R
Dunlin - R
Surfbird - R
Sanderling - R
Western Sandpiper - R
Banaparte Gull - R
Glaucus winged Gull - P R
Common Murre - P
Pigeon guillemont - P R
Marbeled Murrelet - R
Rhinocerous Auklet - P R
Bald Eagle - 21 at P (1 adult) 5 at R (1 adult)
Rock Dove - Ph
Northwestern Crow - P R
Starling P
Savannah Sparrow - R (heard)
White crowned sparrow - R (heard)

Mammals;
Harbor Seals at P & R

The next (& last) Protection Island cruise for the spring is fully subscribed.
We have scheduled, however, a July 26th SAIL to Protection Island on the
101' historic Schooner ADVENTURESS & space is still available

Peter
Port Townsend Marine Science Center
360-385-8882