Randy, Tweets,



Interesting. I noted a flyby immature FRANKLIN'S GULL up the Columbia River
at Altoona in Wahkiakum County (new county bird?) Saturday, August 29,
about 2 PM, flying west.



Nancy and I were scouting routes for the upcoming WOS convention at Kelso.
Only other birds of special interest were an apparently "pure" HERMIT
WARBLER in a migratory flock near the town of Skamokawa (pronounced
Ska-MAK-o-way locally) at the junction of Steamboat Slough and Brooks Slough
roads at the west extremity of the Julia Butler Hanson White-tailed Deer
Reserve (August 29) and two GRAY JAYS on the Wahkiakum - Pacific County Line
along Salmon Creek Rd. just north of SR-4 (August 30) where they come
regularly to a feeder at a house above the road.



Yes, I finally edged over 100 for Wahkiakum County. Now just Garfield to go
for that holy grail of county listing achievements, 100 in all.



Gene Hunn

Lake Forest Park, WA

enhunn323 at comcast.net



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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Randy
Robinson
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:24 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Ft. Canby Franklin's Gull



There was a juvenile Franklin's Gull on the ocean beach at Ft. Canby State
Park on Saturday, Aug. 29. It was 150 yds north of the jetty roosting with
about 200 pink-legged, California and Heermann's Gulls. I saw it at about
10:45 am and watched it for about 20 minutes until a family with young kids
and a dog flushed the flock.

It was much smaller than the adjacent California Gulls with gray-brown upper
parts and white underneath. The head was white with a solid band of brown
across the back half of the head. The band also extended to the face around
the eyes. There was a very prominent, white, incomplete ring around each
eye. The legs were dark.

Randy Robinson
Seattle WA