Subject: [Tweeters] Point Wilson,Quimper Peninsula, Yard Birds
Date: Jan 4 20:05:33 2007
From: Bob Whitney - rlw at cablespeed.com
Point Wilson -1240-1400 hrs., wind 20 gusts to 40 mph, swell 6 ft., High
clouds, sunny, Temp: 44, High incoming tide.
Point Wilson
Double-crested Cormorant 4, Pelagic Cormorant 8, Common Murre 14, Ancient
Murrelet 2, Common Loon 1, Pacific Loon 2,
Bufflehead 5, Harlequin Duck 3, Sanderling 1, Surf Scoter 3, Glaucous-winged
Gull 23, Glaucous Gull 4 and Red-breasted Merganser 4.
One California Sea Lion thrashing what looked like a Dog fish.
When I was getting ready to leave two guys were talking about going out to
surf the break on the inside of the point, but it was just talk. I would
have stayed to get images of that. On the way out of the park one of the
guys was stopped by the park ranger, being administered a field sobriety
test.
Quimper Peninsula
There is a small lake at the corner of Discovery Bay road and Cape George
road where this observation was taken.
Mallard 12, Northern Shoveler 8, Green-winged Teal 12, American Wigeon 78,
Bufflehead 6 and Trumpeter Swan 7.
Yard Birds
Steller's Jay 3, Varied Thrush 3, Spotted Towhee 1, Dark-eyed Junco 26,
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12 and Northern Flicker 6.
Bob Whitney
Port Townsend, WA
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