Bird Watching Enjoy watching marine birds, but avoid approaching colonies too closely aboard your boat. Passage Canal kittiwake colony is a fairly rare exception of seabirds being tolerant of disturbance. Approach from downwind. Birds eat salmon smolts released from hatcheries, and also eat hatchery and fishery offal.
Several species eat herring roe.
Puffins, kittiwakes, gulls and thousands of murres. Tide flats at heads of most Port Wells bays. Pigot and Hummer Bays, and ponds at Pakenham Pt. are especially good. On east side, Copper River delta and upper Port Fidalgo are great spots. Look for gull nests on the cliff tops above the kittiwakes.