We only visited the NW corner of the San Juans. There were indeed loons and
alcids, among other species, however nothing I found particularly
noteworthy. Pacific Loons were everywhere - I suspect we encountered over
2000 during the week. Lots of Rhinos, but only a handful of Marbleds and no
Ancients. Pigeon Guillemots were pretty much absent, except between
Mandarte Island and Sidney. Does anyone know if and where PIGUs gather in
the winter?

Where and when did you see the Leach's Storm Petrel and the Sabine's Gull?

Cheers

Michael G. Shepard
VGI Vision Foundation
Victoria, B.C.
mgs at vgivision.com
http://www.visionfoundation.org




At 11:48 AM 10/18/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hello:
>Read your note on tweeters and just curious no Loons, Alcids? did you pass
>through or over Salmon banks, San Juan Channel or any of the rips in Rosario
>Straits?
>
>Two weeks ago I was out there several days in a row and had numerous Pacific
>Loons, Jaegers, thousands of Bonapartes, "many Marbled Murrelets", some
>Hermanns & California Gulls and one each of Leach's Storm Petrel and a
>Sabine's gull
>
>