Tweeters,



I just returned from three days at Sand Point on the Olympic Park
Coastal Strip. No aberrant shorebirds. There was a probable elephant
seal hauled out on a flattish rock just west of the Bodelteh Islands
chain off Cape Alava. Mind you, I was looking through the scope at 60x
from about four miles away but this big guy dwarfed the northern sea
lions on the same rock. Sea otter numbers off Sand Point seem to be
about the same as in past years - about 30 individuals in the kelp beds
southwest of the tombolo. Of these, I counted five infants. Brown
pelicans were present a half-mile off Sand Point this morning. For those
of you who keep track of such things, there were at least four sooty fox
sparrows singing every morning near the tip of Sand Point where we
camped.



Dave Parent, Freeland