On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Cliff Drake wrote:

> If anyone is still reading, did you see the item in Thursday's Seattle
> PI's Getaways about the Washington coast?:
> "January and February are also good months to watch bald eagles and
> ospreys," advises park ranger Mike Gurling, "as well as cormorants,
> myrrhs and other surf diving birds..." Myrrhs? I'm sure ranger Mike
> meant murres rather than an aromatic tree resin. Spellcheckers strike
> again.
Spellchecker however cannot correct obvious inaccuracies such as Ospreys
in January and Febuary. Either Olympic park is keeping a small population
of Ospreys around that a bunch of us would like to know about or the
ranger is grossly mistaken. Just a hunch but I suspect the later ;).

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA