Subject: photograph correction
Date: Dec 1 08:34:41 2003
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweets,

My mother and I apologize for putting photographs of the "Priblof race"Rock Sandpiper taken on the 17th of December,2000 and not including the actual new photographs of the bird we observed at the Ocean Shores Jetty as of recently on the 29th of November,2003. We intended to show the comparison of both birds from both years,if they could possibly be the same bird since this particular subspecies has showed up or been observed at the Ocean Shores Jetty after the winter of 2000. We had looked over both sets of photographs for comparisons of both birds and it could be possible that both birds are the same individual from 2000 to 2003, but we had scanned the wrong photographs after being tired of a tiring,windy day of birding in the field,etc. We had done this similar brainstorming on the Slaty-backed Gull in Tacoma and Little Gull at American Lake near Lakewood,Pierce Co,thinking that those observations were too of the same individual bird year after year. We have placed the 3 photographs of the "Priblof race"Rock Sandpiper taken on the 29th of November,2003 along with an additional photograph of the Ruff taken at the Oyhut Wildlife Area behind the Ocean Shores STP at Ocean Shores on the 29th of November,2003. Our photographs can be accessed at http://photos.yahoo.com/godwit2003/


Sincerely,

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
Tacoma,WA
godwit at worldnet.att.net