December 25/99 Captain's Passage Between Salt Spring Island and Prevost Island

48Degrees50'N, 123Degrees26'W, 1010 hrs

Counted from small boat, on the water :

Small groups(4 and 6) Surf Scoter

Large raft of 27 Surf Scoters

5 White-winged Scoters in flight

1 lone Common Loon

2 Marbled Murrelets

2 separate Double Crested Cormorants

1 Brandt Cormorant in flight with straight neck

9 unidentified Cormorant on the Bifurcation Buoy

large raft of 50 birds, Western Grebe and Pacific Loons

submitted John and Heather Neville songbird at saltspring.com

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