Subject: Have ptarmigan at Paradise become rare?
Date: Jul 27 20:02:46 2003
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


This recent spate of sightings of this birds makes me wonder if I have
missed something. I have seen Ptarmigans at this location since I was ten
years old, and I can't recall a recent summer trip where I did not see them.
So I have always considered them commonplace at this location. Kind of like
marmots, I would be surprised to hike around Paradise and NOT see them. Or
maybe I am just Ptarmigan lucky? Have they become unusual? Going up tomorrow
to teach a 3 day alpine ecology class and of course, now that I've mentioned
it, I will probably jinx myself and not see one again for years.....

Rob Sandelin
South Snohomish County at the headwaters of Ricci Creek
Sky Valley Environments <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
Floriferous at msn.com


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