Forwarding to Tweeters...OBOL has been down.

Ilene Samowitz
www.ilenesamowitzphoto.com
Seattle, WA
Rockaway Beach, OR




----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Judy Meredith <jmeredit at bendnet.com>
To: rockawaybirder at yahoo.com
Sent: Fri, October 30, 2009 7:10:23 PM
Subject: Fw: Brown Booby in Empire - yes 8:00 to 9:00 a.m

Ilene
OBOL is down. If this is worthy of a Tweeters post, would you
please forward it to the list? Judy in Bend.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Meredith" <jmeredit at bendnet.com>
To: "cobol" <COBOL at lists.oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 6:07 PM
Subject: Fw: Brown Booby in Empire - yes 8:00 to 9:00 a.m

> COBOL
> See below.
> OBOL is not working today. I tried to send this but it would not
> post. Brown Booby is a good bird to see in Oregon. IF you are
> thinking of going, here is strategy that worked for us.
> Judy
> jmeredit at bendnet.com
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Meredith" <jmeredit at bendnet.com>
> To: "obol" <obol at oregonbirdwatch.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 6:00 PM
> Subject: Brown Booby Empire - yes 8:00 to 9:00 a.m
>
>> Hi birders
>> Sheran Wright and I left last evening and so were ready to bird in Empire area around daybreak today, Friday.
>> From a long distance, we could just make out the Booby on
>> the tall tower while we scoped from the sewage treatment plant. It was perched there with cormorants.
>> We went farther south toward Charleston and stopped at a pullout
>> across from Hedge Street, note a prominent geodesic dome style home - and had views of both the tall tower and a shorter tower
>> and could see the bird at closer range. We saw it on the tall tower,
>> then flying up and down and around the bay, and perching and preening on the shorter tower. From that distance we had close enough viewing with scopes to make out light feet and bill and the nice white below and nice brown above. We saw the underside of the wings many times, either while it preened or while it flew around in the channel/bay. Everything we saw matched adult
>> Brown Booby. Just a short distance south of there is the pull out for the Dairy Queen and then the pump station or whatever that little building is. Our view was excellent from the pullout opposite Hedge St. So It appears to be in the same vicinity, exactly where it has been
>> described by several posters. There aren't many places where you
>> can pull over and have a view but all of those described above give
>> a good vantage point of the bay and most of the towers and buoys. Thanks everyone for the great directions and promptly getting the
>> word out to OBOL!
>> Judy
>> jmeredit at bendnet.com