rick, if you want to study gulls particular thayer's gulls come to
tacoma.before i found the RARE SLATY-BACKED GULL on the new year day of
1994 i din't ever looked at gulls verry much. i always dependet on my son
to identify gulls for me.but here i was all alone no birdbook ore scope. i
knew i had somthing RARE but what. so i made scetches and
field-notes.after i looked at my fieldguides and looking at a photo which
patrick got from BC i knew what it was all the BIG BIRDERS din't think i
could find such rare bird. at that time patrick was on three differrent
christmas-birdcount. so when patrick mention that there is a SLATY-BACKED
GULL in tacoma at the GOG-LE-HI-TE nobody believed of such bird sighting.
the rest is history.but it was than,i became interested in gulls.
at theGOG-LE-HI-TE there always attract 100 of thayers gulls where on can
study theme.there also is a place in bremington call ghorst where large
flocks of gulls concentrate. the only advise i can give,is not complicated
as some people like to make it,you must realy go afterit and dont give up.

ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Rick Romea <rromea at stioptronics.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Thayer's Gull Question
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 1997 1:26 PM
>
> Thanks to all who responded with Thayer's Gull advice... I still don't
get
> it, but I'm confused at a much higher level...
>
> Bob Norton writes: When I get with a good and enthusiastic 'guller' like
> Bob Boekelheide we can have a good if inconclusive discussion, Otherwise
it
> just puts people off who are not fond of gulls anyway.
>
> The swine!
>
> Rick Romea "We might as well be walking on the sun"
> Seattle, WA -
Smashmouth
>
> rromea at stioptronics.com
> 206-523-5831 (Home)
> 206-827-0460 X 316 (Work)
>
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