Subject: Whoops!
Date: May 30 18:35:02 2001
From: WAYNE WEBER - contopus at home.com


Tweeters,

Sorry, I meant to forward this to the "WHATCOM BIRDS" group, but sent
it back to TWEETERS by mistake. Please ignore!

Wayne Weber

----- Original Message -----
From: WAYNE WEBER <contopus at home.com>
To: TWEETERS <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: Fw: American White Pelicans


> Whatcom Birders,
>
> The attached message was posted on TWEETERS this morning, and will
no
> doubt be of interest to all of you.
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Kamloops and Delta, BC
> contopus at home.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Valerie Shahan <Valerie.Shahan at wwu.edu>
> To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:11 AM
> Subject: American White Pelicans
>
>
> > I tried to post this yesterday but apparently it did not get
listed.
> >
> >
> > Yesterday, around 11:30, I was on my deck which is located on the
> eastern
> > edge of Lummi Bay, Whatcom County. While observing the activity
at
> my
> > feeders I observed a wheeling flock of large white birds. At
first
> glance I
> > assumed them to be gulls. I wondered what had so many gulls
excited
> so many
> > I glassed them. Not gulls. There were 50-60 American White
> Pelicans.
> > They caught a thermal over the mud flats and were rising with it.
> They
> > moved south as they gained height. Wow!
> >
> > I am taking my film in today.
> >
> > Valerie Shahan
> > Lummi Bay
> > Valerie.Shahan at wwu.edu
> >
>
>