Subject: The Slaty-back is back
Date: Jan 2 19:34:31 2000
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


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