Hi Tweets,

Ruth Sullivan says:

>hello gene,
>thank you gene, for you great expertise with birding.i hope this will bring
>the discussion about the yellow billed loon to on end.

Ruth, you've been on Tweeters long enough to know that getting a thread to
close before it's done just because a single individual is tired of it is as
likely as getting Lassie to perform the role of Cruella DeVille. '-)

As a result of a relatively new birder seeing this rare Arctic visitor and
deciding to share with us her sighting of what--to here--was an unfamiliar
species, we have had--so far--a good, energetic discussion of loon ID,
particularly in regard to Common/Yellow-billed Loon separation and overlap
features, learned something about Yellow-billed Loon behavior and added a
piece to the picture of this species' migration chronology on Interior
lakes. If the discussion has more legs, I'd sure like to see where it goes
from here.

Michael Price The Sleep of Reason Gives Birth to Monsters
Vancouver BC Canada -Goya
mprice at mindlink.net