Subject: [Tweeters] Sunrise Ptarmigans-FINALLY!
Date: Aug 19 22:37:18 2012
From: Teresa Michelsen - teresa at avocetconsulting.com


Sorry - retraction. I guess that was a female sooty grouse. Lots of photos
at Hurricane Ridge around the internet identified as ptarmigans need to be
amended also :D National Park Service says there are no ptarmigans in the
Olympics, along with other interesting "missing" species that are present
throughout the Cascades.

-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Michelsen [mailto:teresa at avocetconsulting.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:19 PM
To: 'Bob Sundstrom'; 'Mike Blue'
Cc: 'tweeters at u.washington.edu'
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Sunrise Ptarmigans-FINALLY!

I've found Hurricane Ridge to be good for ptarmigans...

Teresa Michelsen
Olympia

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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bob
Sundstrom
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:42 PM
To: Mike Blue
Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Sunrise Ptarmigans-FINALLY!

Congratulations on finally catching up with one of the tougher birds on the
state to pin down reliably. I wonder if time of day might help predict when
the ptarmigan are more likely to be near the lookout. It was also 1:30 when
we saw ptarmigan there last week. It may be that their daily foraging
brings them within view of the lookout about this time. This was the time I
saw them at the lookout last year too. Or perhaps this family's territory
is generally within a few hundred yards of the lookout.

Bob

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On Aug 18, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Mike Blue <michaelrblue at comcast.net> wrote:

> After 10 years of annual August trips to Mt Rainier I finally saw a
White-tailed Ptarmigan. There was an adult and a chick just downslope from
the Mt Fremont Lookout near Sunrise today around 1:30 this afternoon. A
flock of ~8 Gray-Crowned Rosy Finches flew in for a brief period also,
another bird I've been looking for for quite awhile too. A pika grazing
nearby was also fun to see. The only other birds seen was 1 Clark's
Nutcracker and a very brief view of an Accipiter sp.
> Mike Blue
> miblu at uw.edu
> Renton,Wa
>
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