Hello Tweeters,
Here it is my prediction about the Lesser Black-backed Gull. I said this to
many birders out in the field and also mention the Walla Walla Delta. The
next bird i predict is the Mongolian Plover,where? On Ocean Shores.
Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
godwit at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: dtvhm at nwrain.com; tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: The Slaty-back is back
> Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 7:34 PM
>
> Hello David,
> CONGRATULATION!!!!! To be so persistent pays off.Many birders are still
> looking for this bird and maybe give up by now. This Gull is worth
waiting
> for .because right now is still one of the rarest gulls what been sighted
> in Wahington. I kind of wonder if this is not the same Gull what been
visit
> since January 1994 and never found his way home where he belongs.A wild
> guess but not so impossible, choosen the exact same location every
year.We
> are ready here soon to get a Lesser Black-backed Gull i predict in the
next
> year ore so. I wrote the predictionto some birder last year about the
Hawk
> Owl that we woud get one this year 2000. What a prdiction i made !!!!
>
> Ruth Sullivan
>
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> > From: David Hayden <dtvhm at nwrain.com>
> > To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> > Subject: The Slaty-back is back
> > Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 7:13 PM
> >
> > After my Nisqually adventure, I headed down to the Gog-li-hi-ti wetland
> > in search of the ever so elusive SLATY-BACKED GULL. Today my patience
> > payed off. I watched every gull that flew, that sat, that moved, that
> > didn't move 10 tens over and over again, until the SLATY-BACKED decided
> > to take flight. Where exactly it came from, i don't know, but there it
> > was flying right in front of me for some awesome looks. There was no
> > mistaken this particular bird. When it landed, i scoped it out, and
> > checked for the smudge, looked at the bill, looked at the eye, this was
> > the bird i've been looking for, finally. Driving around the tide flats
> > looking for this bird didn't pay off for me, so i picked an area where
> > it has been seen the most and waited in one spot for a while. That
payed
> > off.
> >
> > David Hayden
> > Lakewood