Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Marbled Godwit at Swinomish Slough
Date: Apr 22 07:01:54 2007
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com
Dear Paul,
THANKS for the MAGO report!
I am cc-ing this to Tweeters. Believe it or not, the
number of birders who have seen a Bar-tailed Godwit in
Skagit County well exceeds those who have seen a
Marbled.
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
--- Paul Webster <paul.webster at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> I'm writing because you're listed on the WA Birder
> website as the compiler of bird records for Skagit
> County.
>
> Yesterday, Friday April 20, Penny Koyama, Steve
> Dang, Barbara Webster, and I were birding at March
> Point and saw a single Marbled Godwit on a sandbar
> across the Swinomish Slough. It was close to a group
> of about 20 Brant on one side and several large
> gulls on the other.
>
> We had a pretty good day with 65 species in Skagit
> County (discovered the Montgomery-Dulan State Park)
> and 79 down in Island County, for a day's total of
> 95. Skagit County is a pretty good part of the bird
> universe, and we always enjoy our trips there.
>
> Paul Webster
Yours truly,
Gary Bletsch
near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington
garybletsch at yahoo.com
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