This unusual influx of fulmars inshore is certainly great for birders, but I
want to remind folks that it's probably not so great for the fulmars. These
are birds that are adapted for life on the ocean. This influx into the sound
(the south sound at that!) is concurrent with numbers of dead and dying
fulmars being reported on the ocean beaches in Washington and California
(where they also found dead birds out in Monterey Bay, too) over the last
month. (I don't know what's going on on the ocean beaches in Oregon, but I
assume they've got dead and dying fulmars, too.)

Mike Donahue
Seattle