Shorebirds are on the move and young Marbled Murrelets are on the water.
Highlights from the past week or so from the Northern Olympic coast:

Brant
10 S of Destruction Island 7/4
1 at Quillayute Needles 7/11

Manx Shearwater
3 west of Alexander Island 7/4 (Jefferson)
1 in northern Grays Harbor County 7/12

Manx-type Shearwater
1 west of Alexander Island 7/11 (Jefferson)

Long-billed Curlew
1 at the Oysterhouse in Sequim 7/5

Wandering Tattler
1 at Cape Alava 7/13

Parasitic Jaeger
1 great-looking flyover 7/11 (Jefferson)

Ancient Murrelet
1 at Cape Alava 7/13 (Clallam)

Cassin's Auklet - small numbers daily

Horned Puffin
1 adult in flight past the Quillayute Needles and La Push 7/13 (Jefferson &
Clallam)

Tufted Puffin
120 together at Cape Alava 7/13
50 at Quillayute Needles 7/13

Good birding,
Ryan Merrill
Kirkland, WA