Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
Any driving directions contained within this message are given as a courtesy, beware, author is directionally challenged and will not vouch for them.


Hi Tweeters,

A fellow birder observed this on Saturday and asked if I could pass it on to Tweeters. She was wondering why the shearwaters were going north and I have to say that is a good question for which I do not have the answer.

Any ideas from all of you helpful birders out there?

>
> I am at my friend's cabin in Westport and have been
> reading Tweeters to see
> if there has been a report of what we saw last evening -
> easily 250,000+ Sooty
> Sheaterwaters flying north up the coastline. I am a
> birder, aware of but
> not logged onto Tweeters, but thought the Tweeters readers
> would enjoy hearing
> about our sighting.
>
> At 6:20 PM our friends noticed a long line of birds flying
> north up the
> coastline. We all grabbed our binoculars and watched in
> amazement as hundreds of
> thousands of Sheaterwaters headed up the coast for the next
> 45 minutes. We
> consulted several guides and concluded they were Sooty not
> Short-tailed, which
> you rarely see from shore. We went to the beach, and saw
> the lighter
> underwings, larger wingspan, and flight pattern: a few wing
> beats then a glide
> between the waves.
>
> Today we saw 300+ Marbled Godwits on the shore at Tokeland
> docks. And
> hundreds of Brown Pelicans over the weekend. What a great
> time we had at the ocean.
>


Kathy
Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
(chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
Any driving directions contained within this message are given as a courtesy, beware, author is directionally challenged and will not vouch for them.