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From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: winter tides
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Date: 18 Jan 89 13:34:37 GMT
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> 	Well, it seems that the winter tides, especially the solstice
> tides, have been pretty wimpy this year in the San Francisco Bay area.
> Although the listed heights in the tide table have been on par with
> previous years, the actual tides just haven't measured up. As a result,

That's really interesting.  Here on the SE coast, the tides have
been higher than usual.  Are we getting all your water? (:-) 

We've had a rather different year at the Wild Bird Center, too.
We have never had herring gulls...this year we've had a dozen.
We've splinted our first sandwich tern.  Turkey vultures, loons,
and mergansers have simply fallen out of the sky.  Perhaps they
are suffering from lack of food up north that's made them too
weak to complete migration?

On the other hand, our breeding colonies are well ahead of time,
producing a crop of babies we usually see in March.  WE are
currently raising baby roseate spoonbills (only the CUTEST baby
birds in the WORLD) and baby herons  (OK, immatures, but they are
babies to me).  Broad-wing hawks are showing up emaciated.  So
are other migratory raptors.  

Do you think it's last year's drought?


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	Joyce Andrews King                      
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	AT&T, Indianapolis
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