Subject: [Tweeters] Missing Migrants
Date: Nov 4 14:54:24 2009
From: Hans-Joachim Feddern - thefedderns at gmail.com


David, Tweeters,

I posted a note re Bonaparte's Gulls at Browns Point last week. Looking for
the Black-tailed Gull yesterday, we had quite a few Bonaparte's on the log
boom. Fortunately they are smaller than the target bird and lighter in the
mantle, making it easier to sort through them.

Hans Feddern
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA.



On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, David Hutchinson <flora.fauna at live.com>wrote:

> It was good to read Wayne's sensible post re: fall migration of seabirds
> on Puget Sound and the contiguous BC inner coast. We have all noticed the
> decline in Common Terns, so hopefully their movements are elsewhere. Same
> for the scattering of Franklin's Gulls that we used to get, mostly in Sept
> and Oct. On the Bonaparte's front, it is clear that while they may not be
> visiting some of their old haunts in the Sound, they are still present
> around Bainbridge and Whidbey. At a recent Pacific Seabird Group meeting I
> asked a Bonaparte expert, Michael Gochfeld if he knew anything about a
> decline in this lovely gull and he thought there was no current loss in
> numbers. Guess I"m just a frustrated sea-watcher. However, left out in the
> interesting discussions on marine bird declines locally, is the impact of
> Double-Crested Cormorants which are sieving the local waters in
>
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