Subject: [Tweeters] Tufted Puffin off Lopez Island
Date: Sep 3 11:27:28 2010
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


As for myself, I saw two pairs of Tufted Puffins in Colville Island waters on a whale watching cruise out of Bellingham way back on July 20, 1988. I hope they still nest there.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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From: "Wayne Weber" <contopus at telus.net>
To: "TWEETERS" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 10:17:19 AM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Tufted Puffin off Lopez Island




Tweeters,



A few pairs of Tufted Puffins used to nest regularly on Colville Island, off the south end of Lopez. Can anyone confirm whether they have done so in recent years? Puffins used to nest regularly in very small numbers, 30 or 40 years ago, at several locations in the San Juans and in the BC Gulf Islands, but my understanding is that they are now much scarcer as a breeding bird in this area than they used to be.



Wayne C. Weber

Delta, BC

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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Pink
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:32 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Tufted Puffin off Lopez Island



Hi,

Yesterday my wife and I and out of country visitor observed a brief look at a Tufted Puffin. We were on one of the Whalke-watching boats out of Anancortes.

Lots of Orcas - and hundred of Common Murres.

Cheers and Good Birding.






Steve Pink Edmonds, WA mailto: pirangas at hotmail.com


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