Subject: Bar-tailed Godwit, etc.
Date: Sep 20 09:25:00 1996
From: "Gates, Bryan" - BGATES at assessment.env.gov.bc.ca


Three migrants of note appeared here on s. Vancouver Island on September 19.
They may be headed into Washington's coastal Tweeterland, so heads up:

A juvenile BAR-TAILED GODWIT, just the 5th record for s. Vancouver Island,
was at Clover Point in Victoria;

a SAY'S PHOEBE, a "vagrant" species to our coast, was also at Clover Point;

a BROAD-WINGED HAWK, another interior vagrant, but one that we are
now seeing in small numbers each September, was over the Rocky Point bird
banding station and hawkwatch area at the s. tip of Vancouver Island. In
total, 87 species were recorded at/over/off the banding station on Sept. 19,
and another significant fall-out of song birds was noted this morning in Oak
Bay (near Victoria).

Good things are headed your way.

Bryan Gates, Victoria
bgates at assessment.env.gov.bc.ca