Subject: [Tweeters] Why do Surf Scoters come onto the WA beach?
Date: Sep 16 12:01:15 2009
From: Adam Sedgley - sedge.thrasher at gmail.com


Hello Tweets,

I am forwarding this on behalf of Jerry Joyce who is trying to get this
message out to observers on the coast to help document a coastal wreck and
help determine its scope.

As many of you know there is a wreck of seabirds (scoters) along the
northern coast of Washington (see
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009860574_seabirds14m.html)

The dead and sick seabirds found so far have been limited to a couple of
locations (see below). However, there could be more locations that have not
been documented.

Researchers at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary are hoping that
Audubon members would report any dead or sick seabirds found along the
coast.

Please send information to Mary.Sue.Brancato at noaa.gov or to me (
Moonjoyce at comcast.net) and I?ll get the information to them.



Clipped message:

> I've been working the scoter wreck on the coast pretty hard - the
> harmful algal bloom folks and COASST volunteers mobilized. Not certain
> cause is bloom related at the moment but appears likely. Have you heard
> about it?
>
> If you can, please spread the word so we hear more of what people are
> seeing. So far it's very localized from Kalaloch to about Hole in the
> Wall - Surf and White-winged scoters on the beach live and dead.
> Coincidentally a brownish bloom being reported that may or may not be
> related. It's been on Tweeters - Scott Gremel ONP and Julia P. UW.

Adam Sedgley
S e a t t l e, WA
sedge.thrasher [at] gmail [dot] com



On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rebecca Laszlo <
Rebecca.Laszlo at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Wow. This was last Thursday 9/10. Come to think of it, one surf scoter
> seemed dead (upright, but unmoving). And of the ones lunging for the ocean,
> some seemed to be awkward/ungainly but I thought they don't walk well
> because their legs are so far back on their bodies... didn't occur to me
> they could be sick or even dying. I thought there might be black-winged
> scoters too, but I'm not good enough at bird identification to feel
> confident about that. I did see one dead murrelet (or is it murre?) in the
> same area that day.
>
>
>
> Thanks Scott for sharing the link to the story:
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2009860574_seabirds14m.html
>
>
>
> Rebecca Laszlo
>
> Seattle WA
>
>
>
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