I just read the Grays Harbor Auduon Society web page about the Shorebird Festival. Here's an interesting quote in the light of Michael Carmody's previous email:

"Which is more exciting - studying the features of sandpipers feeding among the mudflats but so close you can't focus your binoculars or watching a Peregrine Falcon hunt through a huge flock of darting shorebirds ?

Birders will have these choices and a lot more at the Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival to be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, 1996, in Hoquiam, Washington."

Hmmmmm,

I'd be interested in finding out what it actually all means and real quick !!!!

Stuart