Tweets,

Regarding our post on missing the BT Gull Sunday in Tacoma, we meant to say
that we'd seen Black Turnstones, not Ruddy Turnstones. Sorry for the false
lead, and

thanks to Hans-Joachim Feddern for catching our slip! - Mary Bond & Ira
Zuckerman, Seattle



>Message: 14

>Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:34:19 -0800

>From: "Zuckerbond" <Zuckerbond at comcast.net>

>Subject: [Tweeters] Olympia Clark's Grebe & LT Duck

>Today my mother and I went down to Tacoma to find the Black-tailed Gull,
and Olympia to find the Clark's Grebe. At Marine >View Drive in Tacoma
around 1pm nobody had found the gull yet, so we were unsuccessful for round
two, but we had good >looks at Ruddy Turnstones, Barrow's Goldeneye, and
other species of gulls.

>In Olympia, at the south end of Capitol Lake, there was a highly diverse
collection of water birds including the Clark's >Grebe. The Grebe was very
easy to see, and it was very easy to tell it was not a Western. We enjoyed
seeing large flocks >of Bufflehead, Widgeon, Scaup, and Ring-necked Ducks.
We also saw 2 Mute Swans, and some Common Mergansers, Pied-billed >Grebes,
Gadwall, Canada Geese, and Cormorants. At one point, a flock of 50 -75
mid-sized shorebirds (Dunlin?) flew north >down the middle of the lake.

>Finally, we stopped at the Bayview Market off the N end of Simmons St. and
walked a short ways out the boardwalk along >West Bay. Here we saw a group
of about 15 Black Scoters accompanied by a single Long-tailed Duck.

>Ira Zuckerman & Mary Bond, Seattle