Well, well...

Horned Puffin in Brookings; Yellow-billed Loon below the OR/CA border
(and Bar-tailed Godwit)

A report from Shearwater tours for Cordell Banks, Monterey CA with no
unexpected southern specialties.

If this keeps up, we'll be obliged to accept the null hypothesis equating
bird movements to el Nino.

And before any body asks "What about Elegant Terns?" here's and alternate
hypothesis for them that folks who've been birding Oregon and Washington
for more than 20 years... What about Brown Pelican? What about Caspian
Tern?



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*********************************** I got the blues so bad one time
* Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * it put my face in a permanent frown
* mpatters at orednet.org * but I am feelin' so much better
http://www.pacifier.com/~mpatters I could cake-walk into town