[obol] Gulls and Caspian Tern in Nothern California

[David Bailey]

And just to show I am not biased toward our neighbors to the south I 
offer this gull note from Tweeters, the Washington State bird list:

> *Subject: 2 Heermans at Ediz Hook & etc.*
> From: "Bob Norton" <norton36 AT olypen.com>
> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:39:02 -0800
>     I got out for the first time locally since I returned from Arizona. Judy 
> Mullally and I saw two first year Heerman's Gulls together at Ediz Hook. 
> This is highly unusual for us in March. Very few gulls there otherwise. 
> There were 13 Sanderlings and one Black Turnstone where the man feeds the 
> House Sparrows. There were more gulls near there than any log raft but I 
> never saw any gulls feeding on the bird seed.
>     At the mouth of the Elwha, there were only about 60 gulla and only two 
> were Thayer's. An immature and an adult. I gather this is their departure 
> time for the arctic. We did see two male Black Scoters off the east beach 
> and at the Elwha Fish Hatchery we did have one American Dipper winking its 
> white eyelid at us.
>     We ran in to Bill Schelmerdine at the Elwha Dike. It was nice to meet 
> him.
>     We felt that the winter birds were leaving and the Spring Birds weren't 
> in yet.
>
> Bob Norton
> norton36 AT olypen.com
> Joyce (near Port Angeles), WA 
>
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