Hello Tweeters,

Yesterday morning on Hood Canal I passes up a Marbled Murrelet on my way back into Gamble Bay. Back in the Bay their were a couple of Bald Eagles and Ospreys as well. On the way in their were a couple of Blue Herons on the old saw mill site as well as Cormorants nearby. Fishing was good, two limits in under ten minutes.
We started at Quilcene but the fish their seemed to have moved up the river. I heard a Loon cry somewhere up near the rivers mouth. I heard this bird last week to but haven't seen it yet.
On the Pt. Defiace berries Mark Vernon posted about, its possible they are Evergreen Huckleberries but I havn't seen many of them around their, I live right up the street fromthere and am down there a couple times a week. They are more likely Oregon Grape or Salal. Anyway you shouldn't eat berries that you can't identify, could get you killed. A good book you could pick up is Plants of the Pacific Northwest by Jim Pozar and Andy Mackinnon. It has lots of good pictures. I have some better books but am not home right now and usually refer to them by their authors or the color of their covers, maybe I'll post some names later.

Bryan Owens
Tacoma Wa.
obryan214 at yahoo.com





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