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

Maureen is right, there were many other good birds in the trip. The
weather was outstanding! One other notable bird was a Rock Sandpiper on
Blakely Rock, off the east side of the Island.

Russell


On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Maureen Ellis wrote:

> In addition to the remarkable albino pacific loon and one or more Clark's
> grebes as reported by R. Rogers, the light was just right for beautiful
> views of two male Eurasian wigeons, a couple of dozen old squaw ducks,
> and an inordinate number of gaudy male Harlequin ducks. What a fantastic
> birding day!
>
> Maureen Ellis
> Dept Environmental Health
> UDUB
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Russell Rogers wrote:
>
> > >From Russell Rogers, Seattle WA, rrogers at halcyon.com
> >
> > On Sunday, March 26, I was on a boat trip that went around Bainbridge
> > Island, lead by George Gerts. On the west side of the island off of Owl
> > Point, we encountered a flock of about 250 Pacific Loons. In this flock
> > was an almost pure white loon. It was the same size and shape of the
> > other Pacific Loons nearby. It was nearly pure white with the exception
> > of a little bit of pale rusty brown coloration on the nape and on the
> > primary feathers. The bill was pale whitish brown color also, and to my
> > best recollection, the eye was a simular pale whitish brown. It was
> > difficult to study the bird at lenght as it was as skitish as the rest of
> > the Loons, diving and resurfacing a good distance away from the boat. We
> > tried to keep up with it and get a better extended look at it, but it
> > proved to be very difficult.
> >
> > An other good bird seen on the trip was a Clark's Grebe. We saw upwards
> > to 4200 Western Grebes in the course of the trip, so our chances of
> > encountering a Clark's Grebe were pretty high. If we had the time to stop
> > and carefully check each group of grebes that we encountered, I'm sure we
> > would have found more.
> >
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> > (206) 935-6280
> > rrogers at halcyon.com
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