Greetings Tweeters and Birders,

By so many birders request i put on a summery so you can see the dates.Diann
MacRae told me that there was little space available to fit everythink
in,and that it is OK with her that I printed out on to tweeters.I dont print
the whole article only the data what some birders ask about Diann McRae is
our WOS Editor and id doing a great job,so i anderstand that not everythink
can fit in to this 16 page of news when there alone 9 photod been in this
issue and when alone six pages of Fieldnotes what i took a survey in the
field birders read first,and maybe read part of articles with photos the
rest by most birders been ignored.You proable think how i got all this
information,by asking every birder in the field what there read in WOSNEWS.
HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!

The Big Year of the Bar-tailed Godwit 2002

You read most of this already and Diann covert the most what can be said
about our birding on the coast
There was one Bar-tailed Godwit in January the 14th in Tokland what
proable was a bird what stayed over from winter 2001,
7-23-2002 Bills Spit,Ocean Shores 2 Adult females Bar-taild Godwit,
photograpped by Patrick Sullivan
7-23-2002 Damon Point,Ocean Shores 1 Adult female Bar-tailed Godwit.
Photographed by Ruth Sullivan
8-18-2002 Tokland Pacific Co. 1 Adult male (short bill) Bar-tailed
Godwit,Photographed by Ruth Sullivan
8-29-2002 Ocean Shores(Driftwood Baech exit) 2 Females Bar-tailed Godwit's
Photographed side by side by Patrick Sullivan

10-19-2002 Tokland Pacific Co.1 juvenile Female Bar-tailed Godwit found by
Jan Watson and her husband Steve.This bird also was photgraphed
Few comments about Jan. Jan is a farly new birder,and it realy amazed me
that she was able identify a comlex bird as the Bar-tailed Godwit,and taken
photo for proof the identity of her finding
Congratulation Jan and Steve Watson!!!! We will hearing a lot of this
birders in the future.

10-18--2002 Tokland,Pacific Co. 1 Juvenile female Bar-tailed Godwit by
Steve Mloninow.This bird passible be the same bird what Jan and Steve had
earlier
10-19-2002 Westport 1 female Bar-tailed Godwit found by Steve
Mlodinow.Steve Videotape shows that both birds are different,Asy one know
that Steve is on of the top birders in our state.
This should cover it all and if any one want a photo sent by email of the
two Bar-tailed Godwit together what on both occasion been Photographed by my
son Patrick.
It was a "VERRY GOOD YEAR"


Cheers,

Ruth Sullivan