Thanks Linda for sharing this.



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From: Linda B

Date: 01/10/06 21:35:00

To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu

Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Photos from Damon State Park for 1/9/2006



We saw those Western grebes today--about 15 out next to the jetty on the

sand, sitting there, some of them up on their back legs running along the

sand, and we thought it was rather unusual for Western grebes to be behaving

this way. You could walk right up to them. A few minutes later two

vehicles drove up and started catching them and putting them in cardboard

boxes and loading them in their cars. When we asked them what they were

doing, they explained that these grebes had been battling a three-week storm

and were too weak to break the surf and swim back out in the ocean, and

would be dead within 24 hours. They had lost all their insulation and were

soaked to the bone. Several died right after being caught. They were

taking them to PAWS in Lynnwood where these starving birds would be fed

fish, hopefully in time to save as many of them as they could.



Linda Bartlett

llbart at scn.org

Kent, WA





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