Hi, Tweets. I am forwarding here part of a message I received from Mike
Force who is on the NOAA ship Mcarthur off the Pacific States coast doing
bird surveys. I hope I am not getting Mike into trouble posting this but I
thought it was too interesting to keep to myself. Judge for yourself.
-------------------------------
3 OctoberHi Jack,What's new? During the last email transmission, they lost
all of my incoming messages. If you sent something on or around 1 October,
kindly re-post. Not much to add from out here. Our Burrowing Owl is still
with us (almost a week if it's the same bird). Last night it caught a
Leach's Storm-Petrel; all we found was a pair of wings and a leg. Another
fallout of passerines the other day bringing our passerine list to 20
species. Magnolia and Palm Warblers, Red-winged and Brewer's Blackbirds, 3
Western Meadowlarks, plus a Dunlin in addition to the "regular"
Yellow-rumped Warblers and Savannah Sparrow. I had to collect the Magnolia
and Palm Warblers (not an easy thing to do, but they were doomed--the Mag
could hardly stand up--the owl got to one of the others). In one or two days
we will be stopping somewhere, probably San Simeon, to pick-up a crew
member. I hope the owl can make it until then and that there will be no fog
during the transfer so that it can find its way to land. I would like to
make my (minor) contribution to ship-assisted vagrancy. <cut>

--------------------------------------

'Nuff said...

- Jack



Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
Canada
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca