Last Saturday we saw two groups of LONG-TAILED DUCKS on the Sound
while coming back from Point-No-Point to Edmonds, approximately
mid-crossing: one group of six, and another group of about a dozen (I was
busy watching for logs in our choppy path, so I couldn't count them too
precisely).
Off Point-No-Point, where we had a calm, warm, sunny morning before
it clouded up and got rough: There were several hundred BONAPARTE'S GULLS
in the area; at times they would rise up and fly so tightly flocked that
they resembled shorebirds, turning and flashing together. Dozens of
RHINOCEROS AUKLETS flew by in small groups, and I saw one pair of MARBLED
MURRELETS. Also had a PILOT WHALE make a southbound and then a northbound
appearance.
And, as reported by others, the RED-NECKED GREBES' necks are getting
red.

Andrea Grad
Alki
agrad at helsell.com