Gary,

Glad to hear your count. I always start off to the NW for a few minutes to
get well out into the current, so I don't usually get a look near Green
Point. Now that I think about it, it's odd that there almost never seem to
be any birds in the eddyline directly in front of the beach at Washington
Park. Maybe the frequent coming and going of power boats from the boat
ramp disperse them.

The south side of Pt. Colville has been a fairly hot spot for seeing
Marbled Murrelets. Not every time, but I've seen one to a half-dozen there
often enough that I was surprised to see none three times in a row this
year. I hope to get down there again at the beginning of next months, so I
hope the fourth time is the charm.

One funny thing Tuesday evening as I came back across Rosario Strait was
that the small group of Rhino Auklets I saw NE of Bird Rocks all had one or
two small fish dangling from their bills. This made them look either like
they had much bulkier bills (so for a moment I thought maybe I was seeing a
puffin) or that they had a white spot of plumage on their chins.

Mike
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20200712/52d7c7dc/attachment.html>