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<div class="rteDiv"></div><p style="margin-top:2px; margin-bottom:2px">You have been busy, Janeanne. Whew!! Part of the issue with IDing the dows is getting close enough to get a good look. And either they are moving so fast you can't see them, or their heads are tucked. On most of my recent shorebird videos I have slowed them by half! Really. These birds move too quickly for us humans to see them. </p><br>
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<div origmsg="yes"></div>On Sat, 18 May, 2024 at 5:19 PM, houstojc@plu.edu <houstojc@plu.edu> wrote:<div class="rteDiv"> </div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;"><div style="background-color:#F9F9F9; color:#454545;padding:5px; margin-bottom:15px; line-height:23px">To: 'marvin breece'; tweeters@u.washington.edu<br>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hey, Marv, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">….two recitals finished, a demo lesson, juries finished, and a reception in Tacoma. I am wiped out, but I just enjoyed the heck out of your videos, and hope we can make it down there tomorrow. The videos are all so good, and so interesting. Thanks for the location tips, too. You have some very fine documentation in them, and I plan to study that Short billed Dow, too. So clear!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Now, to get comfy and remember who I am…. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Janeanne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu">tweeters-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>MARVIN BREECE via Tweeters<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 18, 2024 2:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Tweeters] M Street Marsh shorebirds - 5.<a href="http://18.24">18.24</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0in"><b><u>M Street Marsh, Auburn:</u></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Least Sandpiper - 5<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Western Sandpiper - 1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Spotted Sandpiper - 4<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Solitary Sandpiper - 1 south of main pond<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 1 alone at main pond<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Yellow-headed Blackbird - 1 at main pond <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">LOTS of swallows; 6 species (no Purple Martin)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Will put videos on Flickr later today<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div>
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