Hi Richard,
Welcome back!!!!! Hope you stay for a while, we all missed you and you
messages.The Bristle-thighed Curlew was THE BIRD of the century for me.I
saw this bird in ASTORIA and OCEAN SHORES.I am sorry now i din't take more
time of from my job, to chase this bird.Cancelation is i got lot's of
Photos which i look every day. Shorebirds are my favoured bird.
Now i like to tellyou how much i enjoyed reading about Robert Russel
journey on this OIL PLATFORM. I wish i could see all this too. Only you
could know such a person, with so much passion for making such a study. I
printed all the 8 pages and put this in my file with the ESKIMO CURLEW : (A
vanishing species? ) report.
Ruth Sullivan


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> From: PAGODROMA at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RFI: bird migration; Gulf Coast oil rigs
> Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 5:22 AM
>
> Hi Tweets -- I thought some of you might find this website of interest
and
> fruit for birding envy. This is a compliation of fascinating first
person
> accounts from the field through which you can get a feel and share in the
> observer's excitment of what it might be like to be stationed on some of
the
> Gulf of Mexico oil rigs during peak Spring migration and attendant
fallouts
> this year. Pretty amazing stuff. Don't expect anything like this around
here
> anytime soon :-)) This comes from my friend and colleague, Robert
Russell,
> who moved this past February from Seattle to Louisiana to continue
pursuing
> his passion in studies relative to migration. A more detailed website is
> planned but for now check this out if interested.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/8596/specs.html
>
> I'm only 'passing through' the PacNW from and to varied field assignments
--
> kind of a vagrant migrant myself, so am still in the 'tweeters postpone'
mode
> for now but should be back and and somewhat stablized perhaps by early
1999.
>
> BTW, a couple of questions:
>
> (1) Does anyone know if the Ocean Shores BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEWS have
been
> seen recently???? Drat! I'm sure I blew it at my recent field station
on the
> central California coast of the past 2-1/2 months and should have been
> perusing closely all those strings of hundreds of Whimbrels migrating
> northward every day, especially in May, although it would probably have
been a
> tough if not impossible call on the wing anyway except perhaps under the
best
> of viewing conditions.
>
> (2) When was the Gibsons XANTUS HUMMINGBIRD last seen?
> ......or
is
> it still there???
>
> Richard Rowlett (Pagodroma at aol.com)
> 47.56N, 122.13W
> (Seattle/Bellevue, WA USA)