Subject: SLATY-BACKED GULL today;
Date: Nov 14 15:18:55 1999
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
I did not go to far today, i watched the Anna's Hummingbirds today. Yes i
have two Hummers one is an immature male. He came already early as 7.30 Am
and never pearched instead drinking while hoovering.The female got later
and always sits on the middle pearch, so i see her this from the back.
I pulled myself away from watching the Hummingbirds to go and find the
Slaty-backed Gull on the
Gog-Le-Hi-Tee Wetland. I did not had to look at all ,3 birders already
found the bird on the Pyallup River on one of the roofs close to the road
by Sealand. So the bird flys around from the meat plant to out on to the
river. It is not hard to spot this bird among all the other bird most all
Thayers Gulls. There is also a 1th winter Glaucous Gull around. The birders
where Marcus Roening Bruce Labar Ryan Shaw from Olympia and Gene Reveles.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net