Subject: Re: First bird of 1997
Date: Jan 3 17:28:34 1997
From: Stan Olson - olson at twu.ca


First bird of 1997: Varied thrush in my back yard very early Jan 1st,
"wondering" why I hadn't been out to fill the feeders yet.

Last bird of 1996: Flock of 12 Sanderlings still scurrying around in the
gathering darkness near Ferguson Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC on
Dec. 31. I spent the last two hours of daylight in 1996 there, walking the
seawall in pouring rain, trying for the Rock sandpipers, Black
oystercatchers and Black turnstones which had been reported from the area
and which I had missed on my 1996 year list. Missed them again, too.

Stan Olson
Abbotsford, BC
olson at twu.ca