Vessel going up the Strait of Juan de Fuca past Race Rocks
Strange vessel platform going by
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Two Elephant seals on Race Rocks
These two elephant seals may be the ones who have the first pup born in 2009?
Pam Birley captured these images on one of the remote cameras. See other images of the two on her Flickr site:
Whimbrel visit and Baby Gulls
Gulls are hatching and interesting behaviour is captured on the remote cam by Pam Birley from England: See her other photos of these birds taken today on her Flickr site
A whimbrel visits the island, and is displace by the gulls which are very territorial this time of year.
Whimbrel observed migrating through
Pam Birley from the UK submitted these images of a whimbrel from remote camera5
http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/2006/numeniusp/numeniusp.htm
Today two male elephant seals were photographed by Pam Birley on the remote camera:
See several pictures on her Flickr site
Also images of newly hatched glaucous-winged gull chicks hatched.
Larus heermanni: Heermann’s Gull–The Race RocksTaxonomy
Heermann’s Gulls , (Larus heermanni) start turning up at Race Rocks in July. On July 6 of this year a record number , 574 Heermann’s gulls were observed. This was a notable increase from the 21 recorded a few days earlier The winter plumage is quite dark compared to the summer breeding plumage. They migrate here up from the breeding grounds in Mexico.
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- This flock of Heermann’s Gulls was observed from the tower in early September , 2005. There are approximately 100 gulls but because of the dark color are difficult to see. Look for the black and white tails on a brown body. (GF. photo)
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- Here is a close up of the same south-east bay from the ground level ( Pam Birley Photo)
Ryan Murphy took this photo in 2010 showing features of the flight feathers.
On 574 Heermann’s gulls today which is a notable increase from the 21 recorded on Friday.
| Domain | Eukarya |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Sub-Phylum | Vertebrata |
| Class | Aves |
| Order | Charadriiformes |
| Family | Laridae |
| Genus | Larus |
| Species | heermanni |
| Common Name: | Heermann’s Gull, |
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