Subject: Re: Home again
Date: Jul 1 14:57:39 1997
From: Thomas Love - tlove at linfield.edu


Scott: Jim's on Easter Island (Rapa Nui = e. Polynesia) or Eastern
Island (where's that?)?

Tom Love
tlove at linfield.edu

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Scott Richardson wrote:

> 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
>