Point Wilson
N48*08.642'
W122*45.262'
11-9-12, time 0800~0930, incoming tide, wind 7 to 12 mph, swell 2 to 3 feet, clear skies, air temp. 42 degrees
While observing a couple walked up ( Bob and Dorothy) and stated you should have been here yesterday, I said, "why" they then said that a snowy owl was here most of yesterday,
and then Bob should me the images in his iPhone, sure enough a Snowy Owl. Looking at the bird in the images, there was very little dart speckles on it.
I did not see the snowy today and don't expect to see one at the point in the future. This bird was stopping to rest and then move on. to where that's any bodies guess.
Today
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Black Brant
Long-tailed Duck
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Glaucous Hybrid Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
Heermann's Gull
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Ancient Murrelet, in close to shore, 30 to 40 yards away, four birds that were juveniles.
Marbled Murrelet, also close

Robert Whitney
rlw at cablespeed.com
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