By Pam Randles
Birds are arriving for spring. Pigeon guillemots and surf scoters have come from the open ocean to breed. The guillemots, with their red feet and white shoulder patch, nest on rocky ledges and under ship docks. Scoters gather by the thousands to fuel up and choose mates. Little is known about their nesting except that they nest on ground in tundra habitats. They pass through in spring and fall and head south…