I was going through Snowy Owl records on CBC's in preparation for the Snowy
Owl account in the new Birds of Oregon book being put together and discovered
the following numbers for the 1973 irruption:

Bellingham 32
Grays Harbor 25
Leadbetter Pt 23
Padilla Bay 79

I remember that year. I saw my first Snowy Owl on the Tillamook Bay Count
in Oregon (one of 8), but 79... good golly.

What was that like? were they sitting on top of one another? Can I get a
confirmation on these numbers?

--
Mike Patterson I don't swear for the hell of it.
Astoria, OR Language is a poor enough means of
communication and
mpatters at orednet.org we've got to use all the words we've got....
Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands
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