On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:50:40 -0800 "Ruth Sullivan"
<godwit at worldnet.att.net> writes:
> Hello Tweeters,
> We had a Mandarine Duck on our Christmas Birdcount here in Tacoma on
> 12-18
> on Titlow Beach. I took lot's of photos of this bird and i am sure
> it is an
> escapade from some ones collection. It is so pretty to see
> something so
> bright looking in our gray days here in the Northwest.
>
> Ruth Sullivan
> Tacoma
> godwit at worldnet.att.net

There have been a pair coming to a pond in Vancouver, (WA) for several
years, and I seem to remember that ther was a site on the British
Columbia coastline were someone had tried to establish them.

Wilson Cady
Washougal, WA.
gorgebirds at juno.com