Anyone want to help this visitor from UK? Please reply directly to him.

>From: "Millington/BIS" <sales at birdingworld.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "Millington/BIS" <sales at birdingworld.co.uk>
>To: <gshugart at ups.edu>
>Subject: Seattle visit/January
>Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:19:03 -0000
>
>Hi Gary
>
>Jon King suggested I contact you.
>
>I am visiting Seattle/Vancouver on 14th/26th January 2001, birding, with my
>wife, Hazel.
>We are keen to see all the usual good birds (wildfowl, raptors etc), but I
>have a few specifics to weave in:
>my main targets, forinstance, are good numbers of Thayer's Gulls, Whistling
>Swan and 'Grey-bellied' Brant; I'm hoping to spend time watching and
>videoing both (with future ID articles in mind).
>
>Can you help me with any specific sites for these three birds?
>Currently I have only scant info to work on, but I am willing to travel
>anywhere between Portland and north of Vancouver.
>
>In the hopes that you might be able to help (or put me in touch with who
>might), I thank you in advance
>Maybe you might also know of a birder/guide that would like to show us a
>few birds (for modest remuneration) for a few days?
>
>Happy New Year
>Richard Millington
>
>I have emailed a couple of guys in Vancouver, and one suggested I send a
>shopping list, and I attach it purely in case you may wish to comment...
>feel free to igone this..
>
>Only List 1. is a priority.
>Anything that I can pick up from Lists 2 & 3 would be a bonus! (I've no
>real
>feeling for which of the birds in
>Lists 2 & 3 are guaranteed/possible/likely/unlikely/impossible)
>
>List 1. The things I hope to concentrate on are: good, prolonged looks at
>Whistling Swan, Grey-bellied Brent (Padilla Bay?), any Canada Goose races
>(especially Dusky), and numbers of Thayer's Gulls.
>
>List 2. I've been through the maps in the Sibley Guide, and these are all
>the birds that seem to occur in Washington/British Columbia that (should I
>see them) would actually be new life birds:
>Fork-tailed Storm Petrel, Emperor Goose, White-tailed & Rock Ptarmigans,
>Ruffed Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Rock Sandpiper, Marbled Murrelet,
>Cassin's Auklet, Rhino Auklet, Tufted & Horned Puffins, Spotted, Barred,
>Boreal, Saw-whet & Western Screech Owls, Williamson's Sapsucker, Three-toed
>Woodpecker, NorthWest Crow, Boreal Chickadee (& Harris's Sparrow).
>
>List 3. If I saw any of these, they would be new subspecies (future
>armchair
>lifers?): Common Eider, Goshawk, Rough-legged Hawk, (Black) Merlin,
>(Franklin's) Spruce Grouse, Long-eared Owl, Northern Shrike, Grey Jay, Pine
>Grosbeak, Grey-crowned Rosy Finch.
>
>We arrive in Seattle on Saturday 13th Jan (evening) and leave Seattle on
>Sat
>27th Jan (midday).
>cheers
>R
>
>sales at birdingworld.co.uk
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Gary Shugart
Curator/Collections manager
Slater Museum of Natural History
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416
253-879-3356