Oops, since both those species were already seen in Washington before
2006, reference to the checklist does not answer Rachel's question
about whether that specific Long-billed Murrelet was accepted by the
records committee. I guess it would take deeper delving into the WOS
web site or a response from one of the committee members. Ah, the
weakness of email that allows one to shoot off before having fully
considered something. It is gratifyingly humbling to begin 2011 with
such an obvious goof. I can only improve from here!

cheers,
Carol Riddell
Edmonds

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Carol Riddell <cariddell at earthlink.net>
> Date: January 1, 2011 12:11:13 PM PST
> To: Tweeters <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Long-billed Murrelet
>
> Hi Rachel and Tweets,
>
> The PNP Long-billed Murrelet is on the WOS checklist. The bigger
> disclosure, Rachel, is not that you sat around last night pondering
> birds (always a worthy use of time) but that you couldn't move
> yourself to your computer to check the checklist! Now that's an
> impressive state of relaxation. Even I got up off the couch last
> night long enough to Google Kesha (entertaining in Times Square) to
> figure out whether that singer was a man or a woman. Idle
> curiosity got the best of my state of relaxation.
>
> Even the Thick-billed Murre of that same year and location is on
> the checklist.
>
> Carol Riddell
> Edmonds

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