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> From: Ruth Sullivan <GODWIT at worldnet.att.net>
> To: Norton360 at aol.com; tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: CARACARA seen on Tuesday.
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 8:36 PM
>
> 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