Subject: [Tweeters] Pacific and Yellow-billed Loons
Date: Dec 7 18:30:09 2007
From: merdave at homenetnw.net - merdave at homenetnw.net



Hi, Tweets! If some of you loon experts are in Okanogan/Douglas Co. would
you look for these two birds? They were seen today at the Starr Boat
Launch, which is at the south end of Starr Rd., outside Pateros, Wash.
(Okanogan Co.) Some of you tried to see a Yellow billed Loon in this area
last year. We are sure of the Pacific, but the other is only a Poss.
Yellow-billed; we just can't decide. The head and neck are all very pale,
and the bird holds its bill angled up. The whole bill is NOT yellow, just
the tip. But, it just doesn't look like a C. Loon. So HELP us i.d. this
loon. Thanks so much. Richard Hendrick and Meredith Spencer