Any Thick-billed Murres are highly unlikely, but not impossible. Could Ms.
Noyes please tell us how she is identifying the murres?

Also the reported Yellow-billed Loon, Glaucous Gull, and Sabine's Gull are
the makings of a spectacular trip across the straits.

Tom Schooley, Olympia WA , dunlin at mail.tss.net
"The earth that directed itself instinctively in its former phases
seems now to be entering a phase of conscious decision
through its human expression." -Thomas Berry

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> From: Mike Patterson <mpatters at orednet.org>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Thick-billed Murres (was:Ferry from Washington)
> Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 2:34 PM
>
>
>
> How likely is this number of Thick-billed Murres?
> What field marks are being used to sort them out?
>
> >
> >I also saw Common and Thick-billed
> >Murres in groups of 2 to 15(Winter plumage), sometimes both species
mixed
> >together. White-winged Scoters(Several), 1 Yellow-billed Loon(Winter
> >
> >
>
> --
> ********************************* I am but mad north-north-west;
> * Mike Patterson, Astoria, OR * when the wind is southerly,
> * mpatters at orednet.org * I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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