Hello Jason and Tweeters,

I must say that more birders went for the Ancient Murrelets than in any
other places birded before and I must say again this was nothing than
pleasure to see these birds with there behavior so close. For a whole week
birders were coming from everywhere,so if they have all been seeing this
bird before MAYBE seeing it? This is why I did not list this bird on to my
list until now and I have heard what birders maybe saying"what kind of
birder is she"?,but Wayne Weber confirmed it that this bird is hard to see
in high waves as at Point No Point. I feel really rewarded with my recent
sightings.
Now to the Ferruginous Hawk, as I took photos of ALL the strange looking
buteos, with some bright and brilliant in color of many Red-tailed Hawks
that were present.We had one bird what was almost all white,and than the one
you saw. There was a Red-tailed Hawk near Ferndale in northern WA last
fall,which was originally identified as a Broad- winged Hawk. Many birders
went and all said that this bird was a Broad-winged Hawk and many may think
it is the hardest to learn and rightly to be identified. I noticed that
there has been several different ID describing the actual description of the
Ferruginous Hawk(s),so everyone sees the birds differently.We made three
recent trips to Ridgefield NWR and not only staying a few hours,but most of
the day and was only able to locate Red-tailed Hawks. It would be
appreciate these bird(s) would be photographed since several birders saw it
so close.


Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Paulios" <jpaulios at hotmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: Ancient Murrelets Again 11-26


> Gary Wiles and I had ANCIENT MURRELETS at two locations this afternoon.
> First had 15 birds in about three seperate groups at the Brown Point
> Lighthouse in Tacoma. Also there were 3+ (hard to count) Marbled
Murrelets
> popping up and down in various parts of the bay. This was about
12:15-1:45
> PM.
>
> Then headed to Dash Point pier where we saw at least 5 Ancient Murrelets.
> Saw none in a brief stop at the Dash Point overlook.
>
> ALSO we dipped on the TROPICAL KINGBIRD reported from Keyes RD near Elma.
> We looked from about 8:30-10:30 AM.
>
> Yesterday 11/25 I went to Ridgefield for the Ferruginous Hawks and found
> none. I saw an interesting Red-Tailed Hawk which had me going for a
second,
> I saw later that Ruth and Patrick saw this same bird...bright white chest
> and streaking very low on the belly. Had one light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWK,
> and 5 SANDHILL CRANES. ALSO heard a loud RED-SHOULDERED HAWK calling from
> near the hunter check-in station area. Saw one possible "HARLAN'S" race
of
> Red-Tail, but I didn't call it since there were SO many variations on
> Red-Tails present! I lazily counted 18 Red-Tails...I see the Sullivan's
had
> a more realistic number. I can't stress enough how amazing it is to see
the
> HUGE number of raptors at Ridgefield right now!! The Harriers probably
> outnumbered the Red-Tails 2:1!!! Gary and I were wondering what the food
> supply must look like down there, why doesn't Nisqually NWR host that many
> raptors? Amazing stuff.
>
> Jason Paulios
> JPaulios at hotmail.com
> Olympia, WA
>
>
>
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