Greetings Tweeters,

I just received a flyer from the Port of Everett regarding the Rail/Barge Facility Construction that is to start today. They have hired a "biology intern" to monitor for Marbled Murrelets in the vicinity during pile driving. I have called and reported the sightings I have seen at the Mukilteo ferry dock this spring through summer (I am still seeing one MM regularly off the dock area) and have asked that the biologist give me a call.

If any of you have seen any of these beautiful endangered birds in the Possession Sound area, particularly nearer the Everett area, please call the Port of Everett at 425-388-0617.

I was particularly concerned because the flyer says the MM doesn't normally inhabit this location and it seems to me from what I have seen myself and have read in other Tweeters posts, that this may be changing; that MMs and other sea birds are now being seen more frequently in the Edmonds - Mukilteo (and possibly Everett) area. I prefer to raise the alert now in light of this construction and the planned expansion of the Mukilteo ferry terminal.


Thanks,
Judy

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Judy Rowe Taylor
Mukilteo, WA
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