----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Moorhead" <bruceb at olypen.com>
To: "Bob Norton" <norton36 at olypen.com>; "Tweeters"
<listproc at u.washington.edu>
Cc: "Bob Boekelheide" <rivercenter at olympus.net>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: Purple Martins along Hood Canal


> I just saw two or more Purple Martins on Monday, 6/16 along the Hood Canal
> in Jefferson County in and around a (nest?) hole on a pier pole at
Pleasant
> Harbor yacht club, on the north side of Black Point near the mouth of the
> Duckabush River. I realize they're making something of a comeback
elsewhere
> in the Puget Sound, but had not yet seen them myself on the Olympic
> Peninsula. First thing that gets your attention is their loud, richly
> bubbling calls.
>
> Bruce Moorhead
> Port Angeles, WA
> bruceb at olypen.com
>
>