Date: 4/18/25 6:23 am From: cj flick via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Question about Arrival Time for BRown PElicans at Westport, WA - April 8th
April 18, 2025
Thank you, BOB *!* GREAT information for me, and thank you for the article.
On regular years (*if that even exists anymore*), when do the Brown
Pelicans typically show up for you at Tatoosh Rock, Cape Flattery, WA?
*Yours most appreciatively,*
cjflick / White Salmon, WA
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM Bob Boekelheide <bboek...> wrote:
> Hi CJ and Tweeters,
>
> Two days ago (4/16/25), a group of us also saw 40 Brown Pelicans flying
> low over the waves to the north past Cape Flattery, and other pelicans
> roosting on Tatoosh Island in the evening. The odd thing is the ones we
> could see well with scopes looked to be adults, which should be in the
> middle of nesting right now in Mexico or California.
>
> Here is an article about pelicans having trouble right now with toxic
> algae blooms and domoic acid in California, causing deaths of adults and
> and nesting failures this nesting season. Curiously, there may even be a
> connection to the big wildfires and subsequent mudslides down there,
> causing run-off of nutrients into coastal waters, adding to the algae bloom.
>
> https://phys.org/news/2025-04-adult-pelicans-falling-victim-toxic.html >
> Maybe a connection to the pelicans showing up early here?
>
> Bob Boekelheide
> Dungeness
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2025, at 12:03 PM, via Tweeters <tweeters...>
> wrote:
>
> *From: *cj flick via Tweeters <tweeters...>
> *Subject: **[Tweeters] Question about Arrival Time for BRown PElicans at
> Westport, WA - April 8th*
> *Date: *April 16, 2025 at 10:57:54 AM PDT
> *To: *<tweeters...>
> *Reply-To: *cj flick <ke7qbi...>
>
>
> What is the usual arrival date for BRown PElicans in March or April each
> Year? We thought our sight record on April 8th was on the early side.
>
> CJ Flick / White Salmon, WA
>
>
>
