Kelly,

I agree this is the most in the sound I can recall. Brown Pelicans have made
to West Point before and certainly Pt. No Point, though it has typically
been just the odd individual before. I was just thinking that in order of
magnitude of extraordinariness the pelicans are not quite comparable to the
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel invasion, which, I believe is entirely
unprecedented. But now shearwaters and Red Phalaropes and non-Parasitic
Jaegers are turning up with some frequency. Bur are they connected? The
pelicans might simply be an unusual spill over from coastal numbers not much
above normal and represent coastal birds that presumably depend on quite
different resources than pelagics.

Gene Hunn.

At 09:10 PM 10/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>> But how is it so dramatic. How many total are east of Pt. Angeles?
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>I don't know how many. Donate money and I'll do a flight.
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>I can't be the only one impressed by all of the interior water sightings.
>Eagle Creek on Hood Canal, Skatchet Head on Whidbey, Blakely Rock off
>Bainbridge, Gallagher Cover in Totten Inlet, Protection Island; Weren't
>there sightings off Alki Point or Discovery Park? And then there are the
>Vancouver Island sightings. I don't know what the numbers are but I
>believe this is a truly unusual year. I have heard of birds in Puget Sound
>in years past but I was under the impression that these were odd single
>birds here and there - uncommon - few and far between. No?
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>Kelly McAllister
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