Hilary and I sailed to Blake Island from Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island
Saturday morning (8-12-07) and back this afternoon.

Both going over and returning from the island we saw several Red-necked
phalaropes ? our first for the season (is this early?).

Like last year, they were feeding in floating tidal lines of bright green
algae, often swimming quickly in small circles to create a vortex, pecking
from the center of the circle on zooplankton and other small critters (small
flies on the algae, too?).

Ghosting along under sail we could get very close to them.

Neil Johannsen