Subject: [Tweeters] Is anyone studying W. Grebe decline?
Date: Jan 5 12:26:16 2005
From: Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser - jerryne at microsoft.com


I don't have an answer to this, but the timing is interesting --- just
this morning I thought to write to ask if anyone knows why there isn't a
flock of grebes on Lake Washington just north of the 520 bridge this
year. They've been there in past years, and this fall there were a
couple, but none now.





Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser

Seattle



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From: Ed Swan [mailto:edswan at centurytel.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:44 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Is anyone studying W. Grebe decline?



I was wondering if anyone is studying the decline of the Western Grebe
in the Puget Sound? They have gone down from 5000 plus regularly in
Quartermaster Harbor (Vashon Island) in winter five-six years ago to
less than 500 this year. Apparently this is mirrored in the Skagit CBC
data as well. I'd like to know if anyone is working on it or has any
similar data. Is there a web site where one can compare all the data on
a species from several locations?



Ed Swan

Vashon-Maury Island Audubon Society

(206) 463-7976