Also seen on our trip, immediately following the cruise as we (Cathy
Laetz, Kim Stark & I) drove away from the marina, was another peregrine
falcon. It was low and directly overhead as we drove past the Port
Townsend Police Station, just a stone's throw from the marina.

Check out our lakes web page!
http://splash.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/lakes/index.htm

Kevin Li
King County Environmental Lab
322 W. Ewing St.
Seattle, WA 98119-1507

kevin.li at metrokc.gov
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>From: ptmsc at olympus.net[SMTP:ptmsc at olympus.net]
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 1997 1:29 PM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: 10/25/96 Protection Island Sightings
>
>Tweeters:
>please excuse the delay on this posting
>
>On the 10/25/97 Protection Island birding cruise we also journeyed to Smith
>& Minor Islands and observed the following species. As you all know from
>Ruth sullivan's & Bob Norton's postings we observed neither a brown booby
>nor any brown pelicans. As it was, it turned into a LOON trip.
>
>Key:
>P - Protection Island
>S - Smith Island
>M - Minor Island
>
>
>
>Common Loon - P, S
>Pacific Loon - P
>Red Throated Loon - Admiralty Inlet
>Yellow Billed Loon - M
>Western Grebe - P
>Red Necked Grebe - P
>Horned Grebe - P
>Double Crested Cormorant - P
>Brandt's Cormorant - P
>Pelagic Cormorant - P
>Great Blue heron - P
>Black Scoter - P
>White winged scoter - P
>Surf Scoter - P
>Harlequin Duck - P
>Oldsquaw - P, S
>Red Breasted Merganser - P, S
>Black Oystercatcher - S, Point Hudson marina
>Dunlin - S
>Sanderling - S
>western Sandpiper - R
>Heermann's Gull - P,& Point Hudson Marina
>Bonaparte Gull - P, Point hudson Marina
>Mew Gull - P
>Thayer's Gull - P
>Glaucus Winged gull -P & Point Hudson Marina
>Common murre - P
>Pigeon Guillemont - P
>Rhinocerous auklet - P
>Bald Eagle - Minor Island
>Northern Harrier - P (a pair)
>Peregrin Falcon - P
>Rock Dove - Point Hudson Marina
>Northwestern crow - P
>Starling - Point Hudson Marina
>
>Mammals:
>Harbor Seals - Protection Island
>Harbor Porpoise - in the waters between Smith Island and Point Wilson
>
>
>
>
>The next Protection Island Cruise is scheduled for Saturday, November 8th
>at 1 pm.
>
>P. Badame
>Port Townsend Marine Science Center
>360-385-5582
>
>
>