Do you enjoy watching wildlife and early morning solitude?

If so please consider being a one day per week volunteer monitoring breeding and feeding behavior of Pigeon Guillemots along beach segments in Clallam County (this is part of a regional Salish Sea citizen science program [http://www.pigeonguillemot.org])

Pigeon Guillemots near cliff nest site, Port Williams. *Photo by Dee Renee Ericks*

Training (or refresher training) will be provided before surveys begin in early June. Volunteers will commit to one morning hour each week for 10 weeks (through August). If interested, please contact Ed Bowlby (edbowlby2@gmail.com).

The Community Science project has collected over twenty years of data (eight years in Clallam County). Data is sought by Washington Fish and Wildlife to examine and monitor the health of the Salish Sea.

A volunteer will be assigned to a specific site once a week for an hour, counting the number of Pigeon Guillemots (PIGU) observed, the times they fly to their nest burrows in the cliff, and the type of fish they deliver to the nestlings.

A Pigeon Guillemot leaves a cliff face nest site. *Photo by Dee Renee Ericks*

To learn more about this fascinating study, visit the Salish Sea Guillemot Network website. pigeonguillemot.org