Subject: Birding Safeco Field plus ptarmigan trip on Aug. 20
Date: Aug 26 21:56:22 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hi Denny,
You not alone, i had six trips with guarantee to see this White-tailed
Pharmigan. This year i would had see it with Patrick, but i choose to go
for the "Grappletail" instead. There is always onother season.

Ruth Sullivan

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> From: osprey at nwinfo.net
> To: TWEETERS at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Birding Safeco Field plus ptarmigan trip on Aug. 20
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:44 PM
>
> At 08:50 PM 8/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
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> (snip)
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> >No birds. None. Zero. Lot s of bugs though,
>
>
> That sounds like my trip up Mr Fremont in Mt. Rainier NP last Friday
looking
> for ptarmigan. After everyone had seen them there the previous weekend I
> took the day off work and my wife and I went for a hike + ptarmigan hunt.
> >From the time I left the parking lot at Sunrise until I got back, I did
not
> get a single bird in my binoculars. After searching the area where
others
> had seen the ptarmigan for an hour I finally gave up. That leaves me 0-7
> for ptarmigan in Washington state.
>
> I did get some good mosquito bites, though, and did see lots of
butterflies
> and flowers. And it was a gorgeous day with an incredible mountain in
view
> most of the time. But, still, no ptarmigan.
>
> Denny Granstrand
> Yakima, WA
>
>
>
> >But what do they do in the off season?
> >
> >Douglas F. Daily
> > ddaily at u.washington.edu
> > Seattle WA 98195
> >
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> Denny Granstrand
>