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After successfully chasing the Mountain Plover about a month ago,
Jolynn, Tom Aversa, and I birded around the Ilwaco area for a while.
I was surprised to come across what appeared to be a patch of gorse
growing on an embankment of the sewage pond near the Ilwaco marina.
Maybe this scourge of the Oregon coast is known to have established a
toehold in our state, but if so, this is the first I've heard about
it. Can anybody help clarify the situation?

[Apologies for posting my response to Ken Knittle's magazine giveaway
to the entire list. If anybody else has issues of Western Birds they
want to get rid of, please let me know. Ken did have one for me.]

Hal Opperman
Medina, Washington
mailto:halop at accessone.com