On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:

> Ok, I confess. No disrespect to anyone but I kind of suspected the following:
>
> "Wouldn't it be cool to see a manx shearwater on the Pacific coast ?"
> "Oh look, there's goes one now !!!!"

Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth. "What the heck
was that?" lead to "Must have been a Townsend's Shearwater." It was
only after the birds were clearly photographed that reality started to
permeate the situation.

Nobody was expecting Manx Shearwater off California/Washington when these
birds started to show up.

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Joe Morlan
Albany, CA
jmorlan at slip.net