YELLOW ISLAND , page 107 DeLorme. D-8. you will notice T 36 N just above
the D on page 107, 1 inch to the left of this is WASP ISLANDS, Yellow
Island is the horizontal island under the word Islands, or just right of
the letter A in the word Island of San Juan Islands.
(I crossed-referenced the DeLome with a Cruising Atlas of Puget Sound)

Deborah Raymond
dlr at u.washington.edu
Seattle

On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, M. Smith wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:
> > The Fox Sparrows are exciting. The only place Fox Sparrows were known to
> > breed in the western WA lowlands recently, to my knowledge, was around Cape
> > Flattery, a population of _Passerella iliaca fuliginosa_, which breeds from
>
> Add to the list Yellow Island, a small island owned by TNC near Orcas. I
> just checked my DeLorme, and find that it's not named, and I'm not sure I
> remember which little unnamed blob it is. Any TNC people lurking who
> could help us? I went out there in May 1993 with some TNC people and the
> refuge manager said they nested there, after we saw one (a dark
> subspecies, I assume _fuliginosa_) and heard another singing.
> This island is tiny, so I can't imagine it supports many of them.
>
> Also had a similar form singing from coastal brush at Cannon Beach, OR,
> in late April of this year. But that could be a late wintering bird.
>
> BTW, if any of you have private boats or sea kayaks, Yellow I. is a
> fabulous place to visit - no houses except a small cabin for the manager.
> Can't camp there either. Half the island is treeless with an incredible
> diversity of wildflowers in May. The manager had mapped out 7 Rufous
> Hummingbird territories in an area roughly 5 acres. That's packing them
> pretty tight. I suppose the lepidopterist would like it also...
>
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> Michael R. Smith
> Univ. of Washington, Seattle
> whimbrel at u.washington.edu
> http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html
>
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