Mile 245 Report
Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek
January 24, 2015
Between the Roads End beach access parking lot and the cliff we found 6 dead Cassin's auklets; 2 of them seemed to have died very recently.
Report Details
Between the Roads End beach access parking lot and the cliff we found 6 dead Cassin's auklets; 2 of them seemed to have died very recently. There was lots of plastic bits in the rack line about a square centimeter in size.
Conditions
Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 6. 6 Cassin's auklets
Driftline Content
Seaweeds and seagrass. An egg mass the size of 2 fists (stiff, spherical white eggs the size of a sewing pin head)
Skolfish
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