And no Wheatear Thursday afternoon, either... from about 3:30 - 4:30. Did
get an exciting storm pass-over, though... dropping half inch hail, ouch.
The bird got a nice mention on the ABA blog this morning:
http://blog.aba.org/2014/10/rare-bird-alert-october-24-2014.html

Mark Ahlness
Seattle, WA

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Matt Bartels <mattxyz at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Hi all -
> Just following up to say several of us were out this morning hoping for a
> reappearance of the Northern Wheatear -- I left around 10:00am, having seen
> no wheatear. Still hopeful it might yet pop up, but no sign of it yet.
>
> Matt Bartels
> Seattle, WA
>
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Wayne Weber wrote:
>
> > Blair et al.
> >
> > I looked for the N. Wheatear yesterday afternoon in steady rain, as did
> Shep
> > Thorp and at least a couple of other birders. As far as I know, no one
> > reported it yesterday. However, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't
> still
> > in the area; maybe it just means that the bird didn't feel like feeding
> on
> > the beach during that very inclement weather.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Wayne C. Weber
> > Delta, BC
> > contopus at telus.net
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
> > [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Blair
> > Bernson
> > Sent: October-23-14 1:57 AM
> > To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> > Subject: [Tweeters] Wheatear Info?
> >
> > Greetings all...
> > We returned from a great ABA-Rockjumper tour to South Africa late
> yesterday
> > - VERY jet lagged after more than 20 hours of flying. We were not able
> to
> > stay up with emails and internet so tried to catch up yesterday. Hard to
> > miss the fabulous reports of the Northern Wheatear at Robinson
> > Lighthouse. We did have Mountain Wheatear in
> > South Africa but it sure would be nice to see the Northern on home
> turf. I
> > have not seen any reports after the 21st and with all the rain things
> have
> > probably changed. I would appreciate any updated info on successes or
> > failures yesterday - here or offline direct. Thanks. More on South
> Africa
> > later. Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Blair Bernson
> > Edmonds
> >
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Mark Ahlness
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Seattle, WA
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