It was good to read Wayne's sensible post re: fall migration of seabirds on Puget Sound and the contiguous BC inner coast. We have all noticed the decline in Common Terns, so hopefully their movements are elsewhere. Same for the scattering of Franklin's Gulls that we used to get, mostly in Sept and Oct. On the Bonaparte's front, it is clear that while they may not be visiting some of their old haunts in the Sound, they are still present around Bainbridge and Whidbey. At a recent Pacific Seabird Group meeting I asked a Bonaparte expert, Michael Gochfeld if he knew anything about a decline in this lovely gull and he thought there was no current loss in numbers. Guess I"m just a frustrated sea-watcher. However, left out in the interesting discussions on marine bird declines locally, is the impact of Double-Crested Cormorants which are sieving the local waters in


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