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From: mjm@oliven.olivetti.com (Michael Mammoser)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: vagrants
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Date: 14 Sep 89 01:29:39 GMT
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In article <1808@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, dune@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
 > 
 > How are you doing percentage-wise with chasing vagrants.  I am about 50%,
 > of birds chased versus birds seen, and I consider that a tremendously good
 > percentage.  Mostly, it's been shear luck, and the fact that I have one
 > reliable connection. 

	After checking my notes, it seems that last season I got exactly
50% of the vagrants that I chased. I don't know if this is good or bad,
because the season before I had 84%. So far this season I'm at 100%, or
4 for 4 (last weekend I got a Thick-Billed Murre at Monterey).

	The most worrisome aspect of the murre chase was whether I had
change for the parking meter, as the bird was already staked out when I
got there. It was about 50 or 60 yards offshore along the edge of the
kelp beds. It was still in "summer" plumage and could be directly
compared with both "summer" and "winter" plumaged Common Murres. The
Sea Otters were also quite cute.

Mike