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>From: Eugene Hunn[SMTP:hunnhome at accessone.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 1997 8:25AM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: a few nice birds, Sunday, Sept. 14, 1997
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>>From Gene Hunn, Seattle, WA (hunnhome at accessone.com)
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>Just got back from a year in Mexico, so there's many year birds to find.
>Went looking for George Gerdts's field trip group after missing the ferry
>but never found them though I covered some of the same ground they did.
>Highlights include:
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>Red-necked Grebes, some still with red necks, a few off the base of
>Dungeness Spit
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>Eurasian Wigeon, one male not yet in full alternate plumage, with ca. 2000
>American Wigeons at the Dungeness River mouth
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>Turkey Vultures, maybe 10 during the day drifting south in various spots on
>the NE Olympic Peninsula
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>Peregrine Falcon, a likely immature (male?) tundrius Peregrine patrolling
>the Dungeness River mouth. Heavily streaked below but with a pale crown and
>supercilium
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>Willet, one in basic plumage at high tide at the Dungeness River mouth;
>shorebirds otherwise scarce
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>Parasitic Jaeger, one juvenile chasing Common Terns off Cline Spit, Dungeness
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>Bonaparte's Gull, just a few, ca. 10 at the Bainbridge Is. ferry landing; I
>expected lots more
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>Common Terns, a substantial migratory movement; maybe 200 seen at several
>spots, including 100+ foraging over Discovery Bay, Jefferson Co.
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>Violet-green Swallow, nice migrating flock of ca. 100 at Cline Spit,
>Dungeness; last couple of weeks it was mostly Barns; today not Barns, just
>these VGs
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>Cassin's Vireo, one at Dungeness County Park campground
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>Fox Sparrow & Golden-crowned Sparrow, one of each at Blyn Crossing... recent
>arrivals?
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