First spring sighting of GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Herring Cove, Ketchikan, AK
this evening. Assume GREATER primarily because of the three-noted call.
(Light is low.)

Since Tweeters serves B.C. as well as Washington, and we're at the same
latitude as a good part of B.C., and furthermore, since Alaska doesn't have
a birding listserv yet, I'll continue to post something I consider special
from time to time. If anyone is interested in more details of what I see
here in my backyard, please email me privately. (Herring Cove has had some
surprises; a few years ago a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, a first state record,
came to our neighborhood and was killed by a cat. I didn't know about it
until I found the carcass on the beach. The skin now resides in the museum
in Fairbanks. A second state record was "collected" last August (or
September?) in Juneau, when it hit a window.)

I grew up in Washougal, Washington; lived many years in Bellingham. I still
spend several weeks a year "down there," and I enjoy keeping up with
Tweeters. Thanks!

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* Sharron Huffman * "What would the world be,
* Ketchikan, Alaska * once bereft of wet and wildness?
* sharron at ptialaska.net * Let them be left.
*************************** Oh let them be left, wildness and wet ..."

--Gerard Manley Hopkins