Hello Mary,
The last bird i saved was a White-winged Scoter.You usual seeing this bird
on the outgoing tide on the beach stranded where there have problem walking
all the way out.Also there are high amout of fatalitys of Murres dead on
the beach.I wonder is this the only bird you saw on Ocean Shores?

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: "MaryK" <bassclef at seanet.com>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:27 PM
Subject: Was This a Mistake???


> Hi Tweeters,
>
> I was down at Ocean Shores today, won't go into detail as it wasn't much
> of a trip for me. Anyway, at the jetty abt 2 hrs (?) after high tide,
> there was a Common Murre on the sand, struggling to get to the water.
> It didn't appear to be injured, just wasn't doing very well on land,
> surprise surprise. I asked someone about it, and he said he'd been
> watching it for about 30 minutes trying to make its way to the ocean.
> Stagger, stagger, face plant. After abt 5 min I couldn't stand it
> anymore and picked up the bird and took it into the ocean. It cruised
> away unscathed, so far as I could tell. The main reason I did it was
> 'coz there were large and small people running/walking by it, and
> several dogs a few yards down the beach. You can imagine the gruesome
> scene that could've played out.
>
> Would it have been better to leave it alone? Let nature take its
> course, etc. Or was it OK to carry it its final 20 feet or so?? It was
> heading there anyway...
>
> Mary
>
> Mary E. Klein
> bassclef at seanet.com
>
>