Dear Tweeters,

A birder up in Bellingham e-mailed me to say that Viti Rocks are in Whatcom, not Skagit. Birders here in Skagit have told me they were in Skagit, and I've always taken them at their word. Various maps show at least three very different curves to the county line in that area, two of which show the rocks being in Skagit.

However, Skagit County's own website has a map that shows the Viti Rocks being in Whatcom, so I reckon they really aren't in Skagit--despite what people here have been telling me for quite some time. DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer is one of the places where the border is drawn wrong; the DeLorme map showing the incorrect border is on page 108.

The link to Skagit's map is:
http://www.skagitcounty.net/Gis/Applications/imap/asp/iMap.asp

Rats! I guess I had 14 shorebirds in Skagit, not sixteen, and so my all-time best Skagit shorebird day is still stuck at 14! However, visiting these rocks is really very nice, even if they end up being transferred to Garfield County or Timbuktu, and I will just console myself with having obtained some nice Whatcom ticks for the day!

Yours truly,

Gary

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