Hi Bill and Tweeters:
Back on July 1 we saw calling Marbled Murrelets at the fishing dock, and I reported them on Tweeters on July 2. I thought the calling, close-in murrelets were quite remarkable.
But apparently it was the Brown Pelicans I saw that were the remarkable birds. There was a pair, and they were flying north close to the ferry dock. The day before my sister had seen a pair flying south, although those were flying out in the middle of Puget Sound.
Dennis Duffy sent the following msg to me on July 2. If you are at Edmonds or somewhere else in Snohomish Cnty, look for Brown Pelicans. (I still think calling, active, close-in Marbled Murrelets are special.) Edmonds is great!
Yours, Carol Schulz
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>From Dennis Duffy, July 2:
Hello Carol,
Thanks for posting on Tweeters your sighting of Brown Pelicans
in Edmonds. That's the first (and quite possibly only for the year)
sighting this year. They're not annual in Snoho Co.
I'll add it to the WA Birder county year list project data base.
Well spotted!
Dennis Duffy
Edmonds WA
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>From Bill Anderson to Tweeters, July 10:
Monday afternoon [July 9] I spotted a small flock of what I believe were least sandpipers at the marsh and five or six marbled murreletes in mating plumage off the fishing pier. I heard and got a photo of one murrelete calling to another.

Bill Anderson; Edmonds, WA. USA