I spent the weekend at Kalaloch & La Push, where birding was fairly slow
without a spotting scope. With 8x binos I didn't see anything out of the
ordinary for where I was. No puffins or albatrosses or shearwaters, but surf
scoters, a few oystercatchers, dunlin, bald eagles, pelagic cormorants,
glaucous-winged gulls, steller's jays, crows, ravens, and river and sea
otters. I visited Kalaloch beaches 1-4, Ruby Beach, and beach 2 at La Push.
Driftlogs were piled high, making it hard to navigate on foot at high tide.
Walking the beaches at night under a nearly full moon was remarkable, and
quite cold.

The sea otters were especially entertaining in the 9 foot surf, being so
oblivious to the breaking waves. From the rocks at beach 4, the otters were
probably about 200 yards out.

Kevin Li
Ballard, USA