Subject: partial albino A. Widgeon
Date: Mar 29 14:41:27 1999
From: Elizabeth Boyd - critrhse at webtv.net


Hi Tweeters
3-22-99 Down by the Ajax Cafe, low tide, warm, some overcast
loon sp.
pigeon gillimonts 3-4 summer plum.
1 gilleomont in winter plumage
coot
pied billed grebe
horned grebe
red necked grebe

3-23 near the yagh club in Palsbo
breat blue heron
crows
rock doves
clarks grebe
surf scoters
mallards
man white winger scotors
buffleheads
cormorants sp.
lesser scaups
common golden eyes
am widgeons
grebe sp
pidgeon gillamont

3-28 lower oak bay / hadlock
12;30. high tide, clouidy, very windy
pintails 30ish
mew gulls
buffleheads
crows
pr of red breasted mergies
brants 200=250
they were on the quiet water side of the spit. took off and flew right
towards me, over heard and over my van - oh how AWSOME!!! I have seen
large flocks of brants fly from here before, but not so close to me .
they were not very high above me, but really low... the circled andthen
lander in the rough water near the jetty.......Just had to share the
experience with the rest of you..

Also went to gardener beach - still high tide , windy, rainy now, and
rough water time 1;52
surf scoters
buffle heads
horned grebe in neptial plumage
2 eagles, adult and immature

The Wison farm ponds down the part of the road by GArd. beach that was
washed out
-6-8 canada geese
am.widgeons
mallards
robins
4 'blue bird housed - looked new
white faced bull, cows, tiny calves abd a horse shared the pasture with
the water fowls......

Blyn log yard
I looked for nesting kildeers, but saw none. saw young killdeers here
last yr.
am. widgeons
15 + green winged teals, prs
young roughous morph red-tailed hawk -quite close in a tree beside the
road -near where the killdeers nest! got a good look at the
dwhite/light breast and the lower streaks. , then he stuck his head
forward and gave m a very good HARD look, decided he didn't like the
camera aimed at him, and he took off for parts unknown!!
Loon sp, fishing, caught and ate a fish while I watched.
and a green winged teal with a bright cream colored patch at his rmp!

Sequim bay park 2:59
georgeous pair of hooded mergansers. plus a few females
buffleheads
immature golden eye -common
not much going on there

Oly. game farm
few canada geese
LOTS of v-g swallows - flying and 30+ on tele. wire!

3 crabs area water very very rough and dirty(stirred up), low tide,
windy
a. widgeon
mallards
gull sp
50+ brandts

the private ponds x the road
widgeons
mallards
Shovelors - I was surprised to see these
re wing black birds
coot

park/ boat lanch off of Marine drive,looking out at dungenous spit
-30+ cormorants swimming and later flying
50+ a. widgeons
loons
and what I believe was a SABINES GULL.
and here I go again with something unusuall
that I will be highly doubted that I saw one.
- OK I am not perfect, and unfortunatly, I did not get a picture. my
first conern was to be able to describe it first - and then it was gone.
It was one of the smaller gull. a very definate, notacable NOTCH in
its tail, whic was med to dark grey. was grey and white,. I am not good
at describing where the grey was and where the white was,and the
different shades of grey. Wings were marked underneith like the
peterson.s picture. there was a little mottling that ws different rom
the picture. I first thought maybe a shear water or tern. I did look
through the book for body type, coloring and the forked tail. I found
nothing else that came close.
One book says we do NOT have them around here. another book shows them
off shore to wa state.
Any ideas from the rest of you? Have an of you seen a sabines gull in
this area?? I am very open to any suggestions of what this gull could
be..thanks a lot for input

Last place I went, was to the oyster house..I remembered some one
posting sigjhtings here.
-lots of 'peeps'
widgeons
mallards
gulls
ONE wdgeon was different. Remembering all the postings about albinoism
, etc. I feel this one was a partial albino widgeon. The horizantal
white line o the side was several inches wide and toughed the BIG white
patch vertical by the rump..These twowhite area were 3-4 times wider
than normal...... I took a coupe pictures. will share if they turn out
well enogh.

On my way home at the end of one of my better birdingdays, the rain
turned to SNOW !! in the Gardner area, it was snowing very hard, but
thankfully, none was stiking--so driving waas not hampered.

thats all -
Betty
Chimacum, wa
critrhse at webtv.net