Tweeters,

Today, while enjoying the pelican invasion here in Port Angeles (WA), I saw
a good sampling of alcids and other seabirds off Ediz Hook during a short
(sunny!) afternoon visit:
(these numbers are only meant to show relative abundances)

Marbled Murrelet 8
Rhinocerous Auklet 2
Ancient Murrelet 5 (I rarely see these here in Port Angeles)
Pigeon Guillemot 6
Common Murre 13

Brown Pelican 35+
Red-necked Grebe 30+
Horned Grebe 3
Western Grebe 80+
Surf Scoter ~20
White-winged Scoter 5
Barrow's Goldeneye ~20
Common Goldeneye 5
Harlequin Duck ~20
Bufflehead 60+
Greater Scaup 3
Canada Goose 9
Common Loon 3
Red-throated Loon 1
Pacific Loon 12

Black Oystercatcher 2
Black-bellied Plover 100+
Dunlin 40+
Black Turnstone 10
Sanderling 5
Whimbrel 1
Great Blue Heron ~30
Double-crested Cormorant ~20
Pelagic Cormorant ~15

Mew Gull 5
Glaucous-winged X Western Gull (abundant)
Western (more or less pure) (couple)
Thayer's Gull (few)
California Gull (few)

Peregrine Falcon 1
Bald Eagle 1

Roger Hoffman
waxwing at olypen.com
Port Angeles, WA.