Subject: Re: Ocean Shores survey
Date: Apr 27 22:14:53 1995
From: Russell Rogers - rrogers


>From Russell Rogers, Seattle WA, rrogers at halcyon.com

Dennis,

I might have to call you on there being no records of Foster's Terns at
Ocean Shores. There is one record that I know of, from 5/1/94 from Damon
Point, (WOSNews 33:4). The two people that reported this bird were Dennis
Paulson and Bill Tweit.

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Russell Rogers
4510 Glenn Way SW
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 935-6280
rrogers at halcyon.com
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On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

>
> Hugh, I don't know if you knew that both Forster's Terns and Eared Grebes
> are quite rare (the former never recorded, to my knowledge) at Grays
> Harbor. Any chance these were Common Terns and Horned Grebes? Also,
> Herring Gulls, while present, would rarely if ever be in "large numbers"
> (there are lookalikes--for example, Western x Glaucous-winged hybrids--to
> beware of), and this seems rather early for a Swainson's Thrush (any
> possibility of Hermit?).
>