Subject: Re: Skagit flats question
Date: Dec 16 22:12:30 1997
From: Eugene Hunn - hunnhome at accessone.com


Michael,

I bet you never sent details to the bird records committee on that
thick-billed murre, which is on our "must document" list. Go sit in the
corner with Richard!

Gene Hunn.

At 08:56 PM 12/16/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
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>In answer to:
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>>>, Steve Hampton writes:
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>>><< I'll be visiting from California for two weeks beginning Sunday and,
>>> apart from gulling at the Thurston Co. Landfill as much as possible,
>>> I hope to increase my odds of finding:
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>Michael Kennedy replies:
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>>Currently there are many ancient murrelet in Port Townsend bay that are
>>easiest seen from the water, and the keystone ferry might do the trick.
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>Oh, though I've only ridden it once, that Keystone-Port Townsend Ferry was a
>treat. When twitching the male Steller's Eider (lifer) at Pt. Townsend in
>the Eighties, there was a bonus to riding this ferry: not only was the water
>covered with about two thousand or more Ancient Murrelets (many flocks of
>00's), but an unexpected (lifer) Thick-billed Murre was sitting in a flock
>of Common Murre close to the ferry's route about halfway across.
>
>Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
>Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
>mprice at mindlink.net
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