Subject: [Tweeters] Brown Pelican Ediz Hook Port Angeles
Date: Nov 19 17:09:53 2006
From: Bob Norton - norton36 at olypen.com


Darcy,
They are very unusual in Port Angeles Harbor but are regular each summer
as far north as La Push. This year they have been seen rather frequently in
the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound. They do not breed on the US
Pacific Coast but come up in numbers after breeding in Mexico. Global
warming is pushing them further north each year apparently.
Dave Jackson saw 20 on Thursday at Ediz Hook and we had one adult on top
of a barge of wood chips down near the Nippon Paper Company at the base of
Ediz Hook yesterday on an Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society Field Trip.
It is only the second year I have seen a Brown Pelican in Port Angeles
Harbor.
Bob Norton
norton36 at olypen.com
Joyce (near Port Angeles), WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darcy Stumbaugh" <madredhen at gmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Brown Pelican Ediz Hook Port Angeles


>I haven't been birding here long enough to know if it's unusual, but I
> haven't seen them here before so you can tell me if it's common; saw a
> Brown pelican in Port Angeles at the end of Ediz Hook yesterday, from
> the PA-Vic ferry. Just one adult, hanging out with some gulls.
>
> -Darcy Stumbaugh, Sequim
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