Hello Steve ,
Few weeks back there was a program on Channel 5,that there was conducting a study set up in a Lighthouse concerning the Herring on the West.The result was found that many Herring was infected with a certain disease.This would effect the whole food Chain on all the Waterfowl.We noticed already in November and December the low numbers on Alcids..We should find out on a release by the Fish and Wildlife in the near future.I am sorry dint give attention the place there was setting up on this Herrings study but the study was conducted in a light House on the coast
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Ellis" <sellis at coup.wednet.edu>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:05 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Re Scoter Numbers


>I lost the name of the person who replied about the drop in scoter numbers
> being possibly due to the change in weather. Penn Cove, our biggest draw for
> scoters, only experiences a drop in numbers in late January into February
> when the birds go looking for herring spawn. I checked the cove almost
> weekly this fall and the birds just never appeared in large numbers.
> Hopefully they are somewhere else.
> Steve Ellis
> Coupeville, Wa
> coup.wednet.edu
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