Michael Price comments that

>So 1998 is offering an extraordinarily early movement this year, I'd guess
>linked to the ENSO-related northward slosh of warmer offshore waters.
>Perhaps this means the other seabird migrants will be correspondingly early,
>but in the absence of regular migration reports north of WA, that's just a
>guess.

Does an adult Heermann's Gull in downtown Port Townsend on March 18 count?
It was laughing its butt off from atop one of the old brick Victorians.
Thought at first that I was hearing things...

-- Janet Hardin
Port Townsend, WA
wings at olympus.net