Subject: [Tweeters] them pesky Dowitchers back in Florida
Date: Apr 2 13:55:51 2011
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


I never really got beyond the interested casual bird watcher stage, even tho I eventually got around to keeping lists. I lived in Florida off and on form 1952 to 1955 (high school years) and on leave from, or after being in, the Army to 1979, when I decided I wanted to live in the great Northwest.

Anyway, my experience with Dowitchers was seeing them in a salt water/brackish water environment, especially in the Miami/south Florida area. And they were almost always Short-billed Dowitchers. Long-billeds were something one had to prove; looked for at sewage ponds.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA