Subject: No Ptramigans or Mt Quail
Date: Aug 10 21:33:15 2003
From: Tom Rohrer - texasbirdboy at yahoo.com


Not nearly as successful as the shorebirding this
evening, but it was a great weekend anyway

With my friends Valerie and Ilon, I headed up to
Paradise yesterday in search of ptarmigans. We spent
most of the day on the trail east of Panorama Point
and searched intently, but no ptarmigans. From the
bouldery sit-down area just east of where the trail
crosses the big snowfield (which is just east of
Panorama Point), we did have a couple pipits, several
horned larks, mountain bluebirds, and a juvenile
ROSY-FINCH. On the way down, at the bottom of the
switchbacks on the Golden Gate trail, we got a tip
from other birds (Sherry Hagen?) who had seen the
ptarmigans and had photos to prove it. We headed back
up the mountain and looked in the area they described,
but still came up empty. Ptarmigans or no ptarmigans,
it was a fabulous day up there.

>From Paradise we drove to Belfair State Park, where we
camped for the evening. We set out this morning at 6
to try for Mountain Quail in a couple areas described
previously by Hal Opperman and Connie Sidles (i.e.,
"positively stuffed with mountain quail"). We drove
and walked the road from just east of Rodney White's
Slough to west of Wood Lake, but found no quail
convention. For great directions see Connie's post
from July 27.

http://www.scn.org/earth/tweeters/digests/7-27.html

Tom Rohrer
Renton, WA
texasbirdboy at yahoo.com

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