Hi, As Gina and others can attest, for weeks I'd gently advocated that something did not seem right with this claim.
I put forth that "hoaxes with Loch Ness, Bigfoot, UFO's, Crop Circles etc are rampant, why should the bird world be immune? Someday, somewhere, somebody is gonna "find" a dead-on-the-road bird out of state and claim they found it here or produce a picture with no real context".
My only real point is that whenever I take a picture of a rarity, I also take a wide picture to show the whole scene.
Would this have sailed through for total acceptance if the fellow had just stuck to the original photo and not pushed his luck?
Keith Brady
Olympia, WA
As well, one post indicated a hesitancy to even put forth a sighting of Slaty-backed Gull at Wenzel Slough "due to all the controversy". I'd be the first to say that SBGU shouldn't be reported willy-nilly, but folks shouldn't be discouraged to look for Slaty-backed Gulls at Wenzel Slough, I believe all the folks who posted objections at first eventually came around to admit at least 2 Slaty-backed Gulls are there.


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