Hello Mike and tweeters.
We have two Merlin here in Fircrest where i live.One stays around our house and perches every day in a tall fir tree perching for hours.This is the first Merlin we having since there cut one of the largest fir tree down due to the damage of a windstorm we had. Carol Schulz told us ,as we was watching the Ancient Murrelet's on Dash Point Pier,that she had 7 Merlin between Dash Point and De Moines,that is a lot o Merlin's this seeing this birds by driving.And we also had few Merli's on Ocean Shores and Bowerman Basin,this is where the rare Bean Goose beeing sighted.


Ruth Sullivan Tacoma
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From: Mike Denny
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Merlins


I am trying to figure out why it it that we have observed more Merlins in the last 5-6 weeks in Southeast Washington than we have seen over the last 20 years of birding the region. 80% of these birds have been members of the sucklii race and have not been difficult to locate. If anyone has any thoughts I would enjoy hearing them. Thanks Mike
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