Subject: Where in Washington can a White-tailed Kite be seen this year? And...more on rare species info.
Date: Aug 4 14:54:19 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Andy and Tweeters,
Since you write up about the Owl in Havilla , i let you know my experiance
there when visiting the Snow Park.It"s been many years we going up hearing
reports from other Birders which spotted the Great-gray Owls there for many
years.It was not to 1997 that we finaly saw the Great gray Owl there with
only one young. We was running in to an employee which is working out of
the Tonasket Ranger Headqarters, and he led us to the Owls. It was not to
1998 when i visit this Headquarters to give some of my photos which i took
the year before. I run in to the manager which i forgot the name who is in
charge expecial with building all this plattform to encourage the Owls so
there would breed. This Ranger was verry upset that enough one goes up to
see this Owls.This is a verry sensitive situation. It is alright to Maybe?
to go and find this Owl, but not under any circumstance to advertise this
sighting to the public.I am, particular chase rare birds and not against
this species as of the Hawk-owl to advertise, but in this case as with the
Great-gray Owl by Havilla it chould be kept quite. Infact the Ranger told
us that there maybe closing the area completly of in order to leave the
Owls alone.
Ruth Sullivan

----------
> From: Andy Stepniewski <steppie at wolfenet.com>
> To: TWEETERS <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Where in Washington can a White-tailed Kite be seen this year?
And...more on rare species info.
> Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 6:13 AM
>
> Tweeters,
>
> Denny Granstrand and I are headed from Yakima over Hwy 12 this Friday (6
> August) to Westport. Is there a Tweeters willing to share a reliable 1999
> location for White-tailed Kite along (or near) this route? We might even
> detour as I know in past several years there has been a pair in the Mima
> Mounds area; is that right? We don't need the exact coordinates (keeping
in
> mind the ongoing Tweeters dialogue on location of sensitive species) but
> the general whereabouts would be appreciated.
>
> By the way, it was Ike Eisenhart and myself who found the Havillah Great
> Gray Owls nesting in 1994. It was through us that this location became
> known. At the time, we were divided on how to handle publicizing this
> information. Even with frequent visits by birders (and probably
> photographers), the owls nested sucessfully there through 1998, but
> apparently not this year. Gone because of human interference? Who
knows...I
> would feel badly if this were the case.
>
> Generally, I feel it best to give the birding public the opportunity a
> chance to observe rare and sensitive species. Some of these individuals
are
> going to be harassed to the point they leave the area or their breeding
> disrupted, thus "sacrificed" for the cause. However, in the long run, if
we
> aren't able to see these incredible creatures, the critical attention and
> protection they deserve might not be there.
>
> Andy Stepniewski
> Wapato WA