Subject: Home again
Date: Jul 1 14:24:59 1997
From: "Scott Richardson" - salix at halcyon.com


Tweeters,

Back online after two weeks at Midway Atoll. Jim Nestler, fellow tweeter now
volunteering for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, sends greetings between
moments monitoring Eastern Island's avifauna and studying Christmas Shearwaters
there. Look for his return to tweeters in August.

Albatross chicks were beginning to fledge, while Wedge-tailed Shearwater eggs
were just being laid. Red-tailed Tropicbird young were at almost every stage of
development and we spied our first Brown Noddy chick on Saturday.

It was odd to be there without shorebirds being ubiquitous--my first summer
trip. The birding was made especially thrilling, however, by the apparently
brief appearance of an Intermediate Egret. Unfortunately, the Common (?) Cuckoo
seen 24 May did not stick around for my arrival.
--
Scott Richardson
northeast Seattle
salix at halcyon.com