Subject: Snowy plovers in Pacific/Grays Harbor Counties
Date: Jan 21 14:19:24 2001
From: Eugene Hunn - enhunn at Home.com
Tweets,
The next issue of Washington Birds (due out very soon) will have an article
about the newly discovered nesting colony of Snowy Plovers at Midway Beach
by Scott Richardson et al. It is the northernmost nesting area on the
Pacific Coast except for the dwindling population at Damon Point (now just
one or two pairs, I believe).
Gene Hunn.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Webster" <PWebst25 at concentric.net>
To: <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Snowy plovers in Pacific/Grays Harbor Counties
> In Ruth Sullivan's report of January 20 regarding seeing 28 Snowy
> Plovers on the coast in Pacific/Grays Harbor County, I'm interested if
> anyone can tell me about the numbers and range the SNPL in our state.
> I'd thought we were close to the northern limit of their range and that
> their numbers were relatively few. In many years of birding at
> Leadbetter Point I've seen only one, though birding friends of mine over
> the years have reported seeing one or two from time to time. 28 in one
> trip would be pretty unusual in my experience. Ralph Widrig's 1980
> checklist of the birds & plants of the Long Beach Peninsula -- adjacent
> to the place where the birds were seen -- lists the SNPL as rare in
> winter and uncommon otherwise. Have things changed that much since
> 1980? Or is this just a fortuitous one-time event?
>
> Paul Webster
> PWebst25 at concentric.net
>