Hi Stuart,

Stuart MacKay writes:

> I just got my Personal Master Bander permit from the Bird Banding Lab
> to work on sanderling - whooopeeee !!!!

GREAT! Congratulations!!!

> I'll be looking at anything to do with sanderling around Gray's Harbor,
> but also around Puget Sound when the weather gets bad. Currently
> I'm carrying out censuses and looking at prey availability.
>
> In case anybody might be interested in spending some time down at Ocean
> Shores vainly trying to catch sanderling :-) let me know. There are
> lots of other things to do as well. I'll keep you posted.

Remember the Auld Alliance?

What about a new one for banding Sanderlings in Puget Sound? :-)

I am not a bander (I wish I would), but I have practiced in Vancouver during
the last three weeks and taken something like 300 birds out of the nets, so
now I feel quite comfortable in disentangling our feathery pals :-) (though
sometimes I am still puzzled about some). I have not any experience yet in
banding them, but I think I'll band a few when things won't be too busy
at the station (which shold happen quite soon now).

I would really like to do some shorebirds stuff with you, provided it's on
the week-end of course.
See, I cannot really drive to Seattle every morning, as I currently do these
days...


Hope, you can find some time frame in which I could help you.

See you

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