Kathy and Tweeters,

The original report of the (possible) King Eider at the Semiahmoo Marina
near Blaine was made on the WHATCOM BIRDS E-mail group, not on TWEETERS.
Unfortunately, more and more reports of rare birds are being made on local
or regional E-mail groups, but not on groups such as TWEETERS or
INLAND-NW-BIRDERS which have a larger number of subscribers.

I mentioned it on the Vancouver, BC RBA of January 22, but I believe that
was the first mention on TWEETERS.

There has never been a truly state-wide RBA in Washington, and with the
current lack of any RBA at all, it is getting harder and harder to find out
about such birds. (For the record, BC has never had a province-wide RBA
either, but Oregon has had for many years and still does, even though it is
operated by the Audubon Society of Portland.)

As far as I know, no one has been able to find the eider again since the
original report on January 17, although quite a few birders (including me)
have looked for it.
If in fact the bird was correctly identified, it may have left the area.

Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC
contopus at telus.net





-----Original Message-----
From: tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy
Andrich
Sent: January-30-09 11:16 PM
To: tweet
Subject: [Tweeters] An Eider Question or an idle question....


Hi Tweeters,

How was the King Eider reported? I have searched my email archives with
King Eider in both the subject line and the message body and I am baffled
why I can't find the original report. That certainly would have grabbed my
attention before I happened upon the RBA report that I actually read for
once. Not that I would have any luck finding it, but still...

Obviously Barry Levine & co. knew about it because they went looking for it.
Just curious, it seems it must have been posted, don't know how I missed it.
(I hope it wasn't an early senior moment...)

Thanks.

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.



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