Subject: Re: Ringed Teal, Sedro Woolley
Date: Jan 26 21:40:29 1998
From: Eugene Hunn - hunnhome at accessone.com


You might check with Charles Pilling. He has had Ringed Teal in the past, I
believe, and they have escaped in the Seattle area in the past also, if I
remember correctly.

Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com

At 07:03 PM 1/26/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Tweeters,
>
>I hesitate a bit on this one. Perhaps a waterfowl fancier's
>birds got away. Perhaps there is something else amiss with
>this story.... But, a waterfowl hunter killed what he says are
>two Ringed Teal out of a group of three, somewhere near Sedro
>Woolley. The two dead ducks are reportedly at the taxidermist.
>
>At least two biologists have talked to the man and neither of them
>is dismissing the story. The ducks were not banded.
>
>Kelly McAllister
>
>
>