Hello Tweeters,
I had a four falcon day birding in Thurston, Grays Harbor and Pacific
counties. My first falcon, American Kestrel, was near Rochester on Hwy 12 near
Gate. I then saw a Merlin on Foster Road, in the Brady Loop vicinity and
later another Merlin in Tokeland . An awesome looking Peregrine Falcon was on a
power pole crossing the bridge near Bay City, and the fourth and final falcon
was the Gyrfalcon on Midway beach just as Dennis Paulson described it so
eloquently in his post yesterday. I observed the Gyrfalcon sitting on a log on the
north side of Midway Beach road. It was oblivious to everything around it. I
watched it for about 20 minutes. As Marv would say, it was a good day.

Larry Heinz
Rochester, WA