Tweeters

The Saturday, March 22nd Protection Island/Rat Island-Kilisut Harbor Cruise
resulted in the following sightings. Of Note were:

* the hundreds of Rhinoceros Auklets on the water just to the south of the
Point Wilson lighthouse

* of the 30 bald eagles sighted, only 2 (on Indian Island) were mature, 8
were spotted on the wing over McCurdy Point, 16 on Protection Island and 4
on Rat Island

* a yellow billed loon in the water just east of Protection Island

* large numbers of all birds except the yellow billed loon & the red
shafted flicker

Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Yellow Billed Loon
Red Necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Double crested & Pelagic cormorants
great Blue heron
black brant
black scoter
white winged scoter
surf scoter
harlequin duck
oldsquaw
barrow's goldeneye
common goldeneye
bufflehead
red breasted merganser
hooded merganser
sanderling (Rat Island only)
mew gull
glaucus winged gull
common murre
pigeon guillemont (various plumages)
rhinoceros auklet
bald eagle
red shafted flicker (Rat Island)
northwestern crow

Mammals:
scores of harbor seals hauled out on Protection Island
4 seals in the water off Rat Island
Alleged sighting of a muskrat in Point Hudson marina

The scheduled Protection Island Cruises continue on Sat. March 29th, April
5, 12, 19, & 26

Peter
PTMSC
ptmsc at olympus.net