Subject: Re: Impressive counts (Sequim Xmas)
Date: Dec 25 21:00:37 1997
From: "Tom Schooley" - dunlin at mail.tss.net


No mix-ups. I was just trying a bit of humor. Obviously this prosaic
group can't or won't recognize the absurd when it arises.

As for the 33,000 individuals on the Columbia Estuary count, that's a
skimpy number by northwest standards. The Skagit count gets than many Snow
Geese alone.


Tom Schooley, Olympia WA , dunlin at mail.tss.net
"The earth that directed itself instinctively in its former phases
seems now to be entering a phase of conscious decision
through its human expression." -Thomas Berry

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> From: Eugene Hunn <hunnhome at accessone.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Impressive counts (Sequim Xmas)
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 1997 7:42 PM
>
> Seems signals got crossed. I believe the 212 species was for a California
> coastal count, perhaps it was Monterrey. My very first CBC was a San
Diego
> count in 1968 when the total was 224. A Costa Rica count last year
tallied
> 340+. The Washington State record of 141 (Grays Harbor in the mid 1970s
was
> surpassed last winter by Sequim at 144. Ah, living by the numbers!
>
> Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com
>
> At 07:07 PM 12/25/97 EST, you wrote:
> >We should point out that Tom's 212 species was followed by (NOT). We
probably
> >ended up in the area of 134 and would not have made that without the
many
> >excellent out of towners. I am sure Bob Boekelheide will give a more
detailed
> >report later.
> >Bob Norton
> >
> >