Hi Chrisopher,
I usual don't respond, But like to tell you,lot's of birders think the
Palm Warbler is rare in Washington. Not so, there been many sightings of
this birds. Russell Rogers should respond to this, he is keeping records
of bird's sightings. I remember back, when Patrick and i had three Palm
Warblers in Ocean Shores way back . I can look the date up, because i took
close up photos of this species. It's the area close to the Marina and the
Nature Shop.We had some other sightings at Palmer Avenue, the road goes of
Marine View Drive.It's always a good sighting to see the Palm Warbler
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Christopher Hill <cehill at u.washington.edu>
> To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Tatoosh Island trip
> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 1:45 PM
>
>
> I'm not getting Tweeters right now, so if you respond, please cc me.
>
> I was lucky enough to get to go to Tatoosh Island last week. Tatoosh is
> the northwesternmost tip of the contiguous U.S., off Cape Flattery on the
> Olympic Peninsula. It's owned by the Makah tribe, and I was along to
help
> some fellow graduate students do research on intertidal ecology there.
> But when the tide was in, I was free to do what I wanted, which was
mostly
> birding.
>
> Highlights for me were the oceanic birds coming by offshore, the marine
> mammals (especially Steller's sea lions and my first wild sea otter), and
> frankly, just being out there watching the waves break on the rocks.
> Beaths the hell out of being stuck in a lab, an office, or even Discovery
> Park.
>
> Though I spent hours looking through gulls, I was surprised both by what
> was there and what *wasn't* there. No Mew Gulls at all, although we
> started seeing them immediately when we got back to Neah Bay.
>
> Numbers by each species below are the highest total seen at one time, NOT
> an estimate of the total number seen.
>
> 100s of Shearwaters and loons were passing by in a steady stream
offshore,
> traveling east to west (out of the Straight of Juan de Fuca, and into the
> Pacific). In five minutes of counting:
> 22 shearwaters,
> 19 loons (>90% Pacific),
> 11 alcid sp. (including several species).
>
> The List:
>
> 10 Pacific Loon
> 2 Red-throated Loon
> Loon sp.
> 1 Red-necked Grebe
> 7 Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater (those I could see clearly seemed to
> be Sooties)
> 38 Brown Pelican
> 12 Brandt's Cormorant
> 15 Pelagic Cormorant
> 1 Great Blue Heron
> 55 Canada Goose
> 1 Scaup sp., prob Greater
> 8 White-winged Scoter
> 24 Surf Scoter
> 11 Harlequin Duck
> 18 Black Oystercatcher
> 1 Wandering Tattler
> 3 Heerman's Gull
> 300 California Gull
> 8 Western Gull
> 100 Glaucous-winged Gull
> 3 Black-legged Kittiwake
> Gull sp. (prob. saw 1 Herring Gull; there were a few WG/GWG
> intergrades)
> 2 Common Murre
> 5 Pigeon Guillemot
> 1 Cassin's Auklet (flying by; small, small-headed alcid, all dark
> above with dark breast, white belly)
> Alcid sp.
> 2 Bald Eagle (both adult)
> 1 Merlin (female)
> 1 Peregrine Falcon (one male, one female on island)
> 1 Short-eared Owl
> 2 Belted Kingfisher
> 20 Crow
> 2 Winter Wren
> 1 Am. Robin
> 40 Starling
> 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler
> 3 Palm Warbler
> 1 Spotted Towhee
> 2 Savannah Sparrow
> 4 Song Sparrow
> 1 Lincoln's Sparrow
> 2 Golden-crowned Sparrow
> 3 Fox Sparrow
> 18 Lapland Longspur
>
> Christopher E. Hill
> Department of Zoology
> University of Washington
> P. O. Box 351800
> Seattle, WA 98195-1800
> cehill at u.washington.edu