Did a whale watching trip from Friday Harbor north into Canadian waters.
While watching Orcas there was a skirmish of gulls in the other direction.
With some effort, I turned away from the whales to put bins on the gulls
just in time to see a different bird diving at a group of about a dozen
gulls that were feeding on something. It was a Parasitic Jaeger and I think
it was stealing whatever the gulls were getting. It dove down on the gulls
several times causing at least one gull to clearly relinquish something
which the Jaeger swooped down on and picked up off the water. The whales
got more interesting for awhile, but I kept looking over my shoulder and the
Jaeger continued to dive at the scatter the gulls regularly for several
minutes. It was sort of hard having two interesting things going on at
once in different directions. When I woke up this morning my neck was sore,
perhaps from whipping back and forth between the two shows.

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer, Teacher
Snohomish County, WA