Mike Patterson's message on tweeters really underscored the comments about
differences between Oregon and Washington. Kevin Aanerud went to eastern WA
the weekend before Memorial Day just to check all the potential vagrant
traps, saw quite a few common migrants but no eastern birds. I don't know
if anyone did the same this last weekend, but I can't imagine a locality in
eastern WA with that wonderful list transmitted by Mike. And a rest stop at
the roadside provides an Eastern Phoebe! Wow. I will concede that there's
no place in eastern WA that gets the # of visitors who come to Malheur over
Memorial Day weekend.

Dennis Paulson