Hello Marv and others,

Our posting was not meant at ALL to be offensive to you or anyone about the
Pacific Golden Plover or anything and since you led a WOOS field trip on
Saturday we have no doubt that you indeed had a Pacific Golden Plover!!! Our
message refers only to a second hand report we received privately in which
that person doubted or questioned our sighting of a "crisp" breeding
plumaged Am.Golden Plover. We made a strong effort to obtain photos of not
the best quality of the bird the day before your field trip on the 22nd and
were totally confident in our sighting. We sent these photos to Tom Aversa
privately and were excited to see this bird in such high breeding plumage
like it were already on breeding grounds! It was a beautiful bird to see and
our personal firsts in this brilliant plumage,as far as having no flaws! We
posted it and left it for that,hoping someone would perhaps see the bird!
After reading that Aaron Martin's posting and seeing that him and others did
not see the Am.Golden Plover on the 24th it seemed perhaps the bird had
moved on since spring migration is fast and active and shorebirds are on a
hurry to get to breeding grounds.Aaron and several others were along Brady
Loop Rd. in the afternoon and you,Russell Rogers and maybe a few other
birders were there in the morning,so there are in fast 2 different birds to
say the least! The Pacific Golden Plover is a good bird for you Marv and we
do trust your ability in identifying birds and is so great you did see the
bird on Saturday! Congratulations on another nice spring bird for the Brady
Loop Rd. complex! Last we read that Russell Rogers observed an Am.Golden
Plover on the 23rd and felt compelled to write our reply back pubically onto
Tweeters,as we figure perhaps Russell saw the same bird we had the day prior
since it is possible it is the same bird! That is all we have to say and
again meant no offense to you and always enjoy talking to you in the field
when we run into you too and exchanging ideas and sightings,if nothing else!
We hope this message may "lighten" things up,but if they still don't we are
sorry for that. Perhaps others may comment too!

Sincerely,

Patrick Sullivan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
To: "Ruth and/or Patrick Sullivan" <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "MaryFrances Mathis" <mf.mathis at verizon.net>; "Marvin Cooper"
<vark4 at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Am Golden Plover and Black-necked Stilt No.


> When I posted the Pacific Golden-Plover on Tweeters, I posted what I
> observed. In no way did I question your or anyone else's sighting.
>
> Your comment "if in fact
>> there were!" I take personally and am offended. The bird was also well
> obsereved by Marvin Cooper and MaryFrancis Mathis. It was a good long
> look
> at close range.
>
> Who am I talking to; Ruth or Patrick? I expect an apology personally as
> well as on Tweeters. Your lack of observation of this Pacific
> Golden-Plover
> in no way minimizes or negates the sighting. Just who do you think you
> are?
>
> Marv
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruth and/or Patrick Sullivan" <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Russell Rogers" <rrogers at olypen.com>; "Aaron Martin"
> <aamartin at gmail.com>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Am Golden Plover and Black-necked Stilt No.
>
>
>> Hello Russell,
>>
>> Thank you for your posting,as we feel happy knowing someone else saw the
> or
>> a different Am.Golden Plover along Brady Loop Rd.,so it is neat to know
>> there have been both golden plover species there over the weekend,if in
> fact
>> there were! It has been a good spring for this location so what will show
> up
>> next!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Russell Rogers" <rrogers at olypen.com>
>> To: "Aaron Martin" <aamartin at gmail.com>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Am Golden Plover and Black-necked Stilt No.
>>
>>
>> >I observed the AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER on Brady Loop Road on Sunday
> (4/23)
>> >at approximately 9:00AM along with approximately 75 BLACK-BELLIED
> PLOVERS.
>> >
>> > Russell
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > --------------------------
>> > Russell, Mary, Emily, Willie, and Paddy
>> > 219 South Second Ave
>> > Sequim WA 98382
>> > (360) 582-3781
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > --------------------------
>> > On Apr 24, 2005, at 12:00 AM, Aaron Martin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Tweets,
>> >>
>> >> Today Fred Parent, my wife and I birded Discovery Park, Brady Loop Rd,
>> >> and Nisqually NWR. Mainly we were looking for the Am. Golden Plover,
>> >> Black-necked Stilt and Vesper Sparrow reported at these three
>> >> locations. While we didn't see any of our target birds we did see
>> >> several new birds for the year. At Discovery Park we saw a small
>> >> number of CHIPPING SPARROWS.
>> >>
>> >> Arriving around 3:00pm at Brady Loop Road we ran into Tim O'Brien.
>> >> Together we birded the loop but didn't see any Black Bellied Plovers
>> >> let alone the Am Golden Plover, but we did manage to see a couple of
>> >> SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, Least and Western Sandpipers along with
>> >> Short-billed Dowitcher. In the mixed rain at Nisqually we saw several
>> >> Cinnamon Teal and an American Bittern but not luck seeing the Blue
>> >> Winged Teal. All said we ended up with 76 species for the day.
>> >>
>> >> Aaron Martin
>> >> Seattle, WA
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