Was it in full plumage? We saw the one that turned up in ... believe it or
don't ... Tucson. It was gorgeous.

Mary Ann Chapman
Seattle

At 11:41 AM 10/8/2005, Marilynne & Neil Robins wrote:
>I received this e-mail this morning and I went and found the Northern
>Wheatear along with eight other birders---
>The bird is still there it's now 11:40 am.
>Neil Robins
>Parksville
>British Columbia
>Canada
>
> I took some pics of a bird that I couldn't identify yesterday, so I sent
> them off to a well known V.I. birder. He said it was a Northern Wheatear,
> and it had only been seen once before in B.C.,at the Victoria airport,in
> 1970. There have only been 4 sightings of the bird in Western North
> America. If you're interested in seeing him, he's in the French Creek
> estuary ,Columbia Beach side, near the ocean.
> Cheers ,Ralph Hocken
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