[Tweeters] Cassin’s Auklet Admiralty Inlet Offshore of Port Townsend

[David Parent]

On May 2, 2022, 12:02pm, while aboard the eastbound Port Townsend Ferry I observed a Cassin’s Auklet in a large feeding flock of gulls, cormorants, Rhinoceros Auklets and Pigeon Guillemots. The bird was murrelet size, uniform grey with a pale eye and white supraorbital spot. 
On the ferry back to Whidbey, 5:35pm, I observed a Tufted Puffin and a very early Heermann’s Gull with another feeding flock in a tide rip about a half mile offshore from the Coupeville ferry landing. 

Dave Parent  dpdvmatwhidbeydotcom Langley, WA

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