TWEETS,
I do not think the SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER was seen today at the 3 Crabs
horse pond. Ruth and Patrick Sullivan were there at 8:30 and were joined by
Scott Downes and Nancy Ladengergen. They had had no luck when I left at about
10:30 and Bob Boekelheide did not see it at 3PM.
Meadowbrook Creek has had a lot of work done on it by Les Jones (a major
landowner and past president of our Olympic Peninsula Audubon Chapter) and
others to improve the fish spawning potential of the creek with advice from
the FWS. I don't know any details of the trapping but I feel certain this was
done with considerable thought and with the consent of (and perhaps by) the
FWS. I presume the threatened fish took priority over the nonthreatened
beaver. I felt like I had lost a friend as I saw the horse pond evaporate.
Bob Norton
Joyce, WA