Hello everyone,

Just a quick side note on the Shy Albatross. A few days after Rich posted
that he had seen a Shy Albatross, I was banding birds down at the Morse
Reserve near Fort Lewis. Towards the end of the banding day (11:00 AM), a
car pulled up. A old man stepped out and walked over to where we were
banding a strange looking Willow Flycatcher. The man intoduced his self as
John Slipp.

I said to myself "John Slipp, John Slipp, why dose that name ring a bell?"
Then it occured to me, John Slipp was the collector of the only other Shy
Albatross record in North America! Weird or what. I did not even know if
he was still alive.

Also, it was a good week for Albatross carma. On the boat trip out of
Westport this past Saturday, we saw 3 Laysan Albatrosses and over 700
Black-footed Albatrosses.

Reference:
Slipp, John W. 1952. A record of the Tasmanian White-capped Albatross
_Diomedea cauta cauta_ in American North Pacific Water. Auk 69:458-459.