I like to apolgize for wording my sentence. it should read:THE first snowy
owl in the state arrived. i din'thad anny intension to claim this bibird as
my record.the day we saw the snowy owl we met people on EDIZ HOOK what are
working on base there, which told us tha a women spotted the bird first,
than turned it over to local birders a name was mention than, cause, i
can't remember now what her name was.the GYRFALCON was wittnessed by three
people myself patrick sullivan and kraig kemper the correct date for the
snowy owl was also listed in washington field notes by bob norton
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> From: bboek at olympus.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: first 1996 Snowy Owl, correction
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 1997 5:09 PM
>
> One slight correction: The first Snowy Owl in 1996 was seen on October
> 20th, by Roger Hoffman, at Ediz Hook.
>
> Ruth Sullivan says:
> >i will respond:EARLY GYRFALCON:last year we had a gyrfalcon on october
21-
> >1996 right on time. it was the day our first sowy owl in the state
arrived
> >at EDIZ HOOK clallam co.the gyrfalcon was sighted in sequim 3 crabs.it
also
> >was a ,brown-morph
>
> Bob Boekelheide
> Sequim