Life on the Outer Coast

The high point of a rather wet Tuesday was watching fork-tailed storm petrels and a sharp shinned hawk near the Sealing Cove cleaning station. I have been seeing the storm petrels on my way back and forth from the island for the last 5 days. I'm fairly certain that I have seen both the fork tailed and the Leaches storm petrel. The latter has a much more pronounced white band on the rump and a darker color (brown).
The sharp shinned hawk first tried for a Kingfisher and then moved on to the Storm petrels. The hawk didn't spend too much time at it, about 3 passes on different individuals before flying off to a tree on the small island north of the bridge entrance to Sealing cove.
A bald eagle was seen capturing a storm petrel earlier in the day.
On Monday, a student brought a nice collection of Coprinus atramentarius to class, they are now a lovely inky mess in the refrigerator.