Unfortunately, I am partially guilty. I have yet to submit a single
record to a rare bird committee anywhere. I respect the work of the
rare bird committees, but I have never felt I could adequately
prepare a description.

Secondly, with Tufted Ducks almost annual in our area, I never knew
they were of concern to the WA committee.

Off the top of my head I can think of three more records for the
Wenatchee area.

1) a male seen by many birders from across the state at Turtle Rock
in fall 1985.

2) a female seen by my family and me at Turtle Rock the day after
Thanksgiving 1986 (a lesson to me, we were out rock-hounding and saw
both the duck and a Cattle Egret).

3) a male seen by many birders at Pateros in early April, 1988 (I
think).

4) for an additional e. Washington record, there was one on the
Columbia NWR about the same time as the Pateros bird.

Unless I have my dates wrong, there might also have been a male
at Turtle Rock in November 1992 (is that one Gene mentioned?)

From: Jerry Tangren, Wenatchee WA
<gsw$en at wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>