Hi Barry and Tweets -
On Thursday, the 5th, I was playing tour guide on Orcas for visiting
friends and we saw large numbers of Hooded Mergansers spread out on
different lakes - more than I've ever seen in the four years I've lived
here. Must have been 25 on one lake and usually a high would be 5 or 6
(They do breed on Orcas). Maybe we both just caught a day when they came
down on their migration route to regroup. It will be interesting to see if
we have a larger than usual number wintering here this year.
Gayle Benton
Eastsound, WA
gbenton at thesanjuans.com
On At 11:11 PM 11/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Tweeters,
>Today at Ebey's Landing, on Widbey Island, Richard Struve and I
>found a flock of 123 Hooded Mergansers. Having never seen more than a
>couple of Hooded Mergansers at a time, we were both wondering whether this
>was an unusual event. Any ideas?
>
>Barry Levine
>Seattle
>levineb at belnet.bellevue.k12.wa.us
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