Point Wilson, 10-30-08, time 1500-1630, cloudy skies, calm seas, temp 52,
high incoming tide

I got good views of a single Yellow-billed Loon coming out of breeding
plumage for about an hour. With many images of this bird at a distance of
200 yards or more with a 600 mm lens+1.4 TC on a 1.3 crop camera =1092mm or
21.9X I will be back today to see if I am lucky enough to see it again. You
can see one image of the yellow-billed Loon on my flickr site.





Common Loon 2

Pacific Loon 8

Yellow-billed Loon 1

Red-necked Grebe 1

Horned Grebe 6

Pelagic Cormorant 13

Double-crested Cormorant 15

Brandt's cormorant 1

Pigeon Guillemot 8

Marbled Murrelet 3

Ancient Murrelet 2

Heermann's Gull 6

Glaucus-winged Gull 9

Glaucous-winged hybrid Gull 11

Mew Gull 5

Bonaparte's Gull 18

Surf Scoter 9

White-winged Scoter 4

Harlequin Duck 10

Bufflehead 2

Red-breasted Merganser 6

Dunlin 2

Sanderling 8







Bob Whitney

Port Townsend, WA

mailto:rlw at cablespeed.com

www.flickr.com/photos/rlw/