Subject: [Tweeters] White-tailed Ptarmigan Table Mt.
Date: Sep 3 06:12:32 2006
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


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9/3/06

It's just me butting in again;

I'm glad someone mentioned calling Ptarmigan. I once heard calling Ptarmigan along the mossy cliff below my feet on Ptarmiagn Ridge, years ago, and counted it even tho I never laid eyes on it. I assumed it was a female giving warrning calls to her young.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham,, WA
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From: "Howard Armstrong" <godwits at wavecable.com>
> Tweeters,
>
> Yesterday I led 6 people from Skagit Audubon to Table Mt. in Whatcom Co. to see
> Ptarmigan. We walked to the end of the trail including much wandering all over
> the top without success. At the end I ran into Bob Sundstom with a group from
> Mercer Island. They had had no success yet either. We walked back a short way
> and broke for lunch in a place giving good views all around. While eating I
> heard Ptarmigan calling. I started walking toward the calls and saw Bob coming
> too. Soon we found a family of 7--an adult Female and 6 young. Beautiful views
> of the birds as well as Mts Baker and Shukson.
>
> Howard Armstrong
> Samish Island
> mailto:godwits at wavecable.com



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