[EBB Sightings] Outer Pt Reyes - Owls and Marbled Murrelet

Birded Outer Point Reyes yesterday (Sunday in hopes that early  
migrants might be showing. Fog on the deck most of the day made the  
objective challenging! However did find notable  3 Barn Owls (at RCA  
Station, Fish Docks and Drakes Beach) as well as the resident (?)  
Great Horned Owl at Mendoza. Perhaps more surprising was the sight of  
a juvenile Marbled Murrelet 50 yds offshore at the Lifeboat Station   
fishing with 2 Common Loons. Did manage a single Orange crowned  
warbler at Drakes Beach among the willows by the monument, and a  
Townsend's warbler among a flurry of Chestnut-backed Chickadees on the  
earthquake trail at the Pt Reyes Visitor Center.

David Hutton