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December 11, 1:26 PM - This is Vic Nelson at Point No Point. Today at about
1:00 o'clock I saw a leucistic COMMON MURRE. It has an orange bill, dusky
wing coverts, and almost the rest of the upper body is mostly white. The
underbody is all white. Very interesting looking bird. I do not know if
anybody saw any of the ARCTIC LOONS because I was gone this morning. Thank
you. Goodbye.

December 11,4:57 PM - Hi, this is Steven Mlodinov. Today Steve Pink, Brian
Bell, myself and others were at Point No Point around 10:00 AM. We very
likely had an ARCTIC LOON. It was reasonably close, but not as close as many
of the birds. It certainly showed the big, white flank patch and was quite
dark and had a lot of white on the face, all quite typical of ARCTIC LOONS.
We did not have a chance to fully appreciate bill and head shape and size.
The bird dove just as I was trying to videotape it, apparently never to
return. We were there until about 11:00 o'clock and that was the only
sighting. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

December 12, 12:52 PM - This is Vic Nelson. Today at Point No Point at the
NE point of the Olypmic Peninsula, one of the ARCTIC LOONS was present about
a half-mile west of the lighthouse, close to the little store in Hansville
and about 100 yards off shore. That was between about 10:30 and 11:00. At
about 12:00 o'clock there was also a first year LITTLE GULL out here with a
small flock of BONAPARTE'S and MEW GULLS. Goodbye.

Grant Hendrickson
Redmond, WA
granth at halcyon.com