Subject: [Tweeters] re: Tufted Puffin off Lopez Island
Date: Sep 3 13:04:33 2010
From: Scott Downes - downess at charter.net


Back in the summer of 1998 I was stationed on Lopez Island for several weeks doing some bat research. Since bats don't do too much during the daylight hours I had some time to bird. I regularly saw Tufted Puffins (usually only 1-3 birds) in the waters off of Pt. Colville on the south end of the island. This is the nearest area on land to Colville Island and if they weren't breeding there, they were certainly using the area for loafing and foraging.

Scott Downes
downess at charter.net
Yakima WA