Excuse me -- SOOTY SHEARWATERS! (As I mentioned when I saw thousands of
them a couple weeks ago, I'm not very good at my pelagics yet -- I saw
the earlier email about 3,000 Storm Petrels at Ocean Shores, which then
reminded me to send an email about the *Shearwaters* I saw!) Sorry for
the confusion.

Andrea

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Patterson [mailto:celata at pacifier.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:27 PM
To: Grad, Andrea E.
Subject: Re: Storm Petrels off Washaway Beach, 7/14


Storm-petrels or shearwaters?

Were they robin sized (storm-petrels) or gull-sized (shearwaters).

"Grad, Andrea E." wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 14, at approximately 5:00 p.m., I saw what
had
> to be hundreds of thousands if not millions of STORM PETRELS off of
> Washaway Beach (just north of Tokeland, WA). The line of them
extended
> at least a couple miles. They gradually disappeared to the south,
> toward the Long Beach peninsula.
> Sorry for the late report but I have been away from my email
> since then.
>
> Andrea Grad
> Alki
> agrad at helsell.com

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