Hello Bob,
Patrick and I, can't understand why we never hear any report's from this
area around Neah Bay? It looks as the Crested Caracara put this smal town
on the Map for Birders to go.you said better looks of this Bird {Caracara}
how good can it get. seeing this Bird taken Prey away from the Gull on the
Piling.We watched this Bird to dark, flying all over Town, and places,
where no Birders reported this.When we came to Neah Bay we had 40 Black
Oystercatcher and One Surfbird, and15 black Turnstone, going Home, we
stopped again, we only had 20 Oystercatcher.On all the Birds i took Photos
of, lot's of the Caracara,lot's of the first year GLAUCOUS GULL. We found
this Bird on the Beach next to the Senior Center, the same day you was
there, also again the next morning.We certainly had a good Trip.It worth
the Trip going back once more. You talk Gulls on Ediz Hook, you don't find
a better Place to find MORE Gulls than you ever find any other Place,this
take you Time.Comming back to the Black Oystercatcher, this is the most
amount in Numbers i found in the State of Washington.
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Norton360 <Norton360 at aol.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: CARACARA seen on Tuesday.
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 6:43 PM
>
> Judy Mullally and I went out yesterday and got good views of the
CARACARA.
> The last was down on the beach very close to us picking at a gull carcass
> surrounded by crows who harassed it. One crow even stepped up behind and
> pulled at his tail. The CARACARA didn't even seem to notice. Another time
it
> was out on a post picking at a birdwing.
> Ruth and Patrick Sullivan were there. The last I saw them, Ruth
wanted
> still better views (what else is new?). They had seen a SURFBIRD east of
Neah
> Bay and a RUDDY DUCK (sparse anywhere in Clallam Co.) but Judy and I saw
> nothing out of the ordinary except more BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS than I've
ever
> seen in Neah Bay. The Sullivans had even more OYSTERCATCHERS than we did.
> Ruth, let me know how many OYSTERCATCHERS did you have? What else did you
have
> that was good for my database on the North Olympic?
> Bob Norton
> Joyce, WA
> norton360 at aol.com