SAS RBA for 26 December 1996:

Thank-you for calling Seattle Audubon'=92s Bird Sightings Hotline, my nam=
e
is Bob O'=92link. This report was made at 9:00 p.m. December 26th. To
leave a message without listening to the details, press the "*" key and
begin speaking.

If you would like to participate in the SAS Christmas Bird Count on the
28th, please call the office by the 27th to register. The number is
523-4483 and the office hours are 10 to 4. If you have a feeder and
would like to count the birds which you feed, that is welcomed, also,
but you still need to register.

4 SWANS, presumably Tundra or Trumpeter, were seen flying between Alki
Point and Lincoln Park in West Seattle on the 26th.

A WILSON'=92S WARBLER was seen at the Montlake Fill on the 22nd. Also
that day at the Washington Park Arboretum, the BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
was relocated between the footbridge and Highway 520, and at the south
end of the N.O.A.A. property at Sand Point was a SHORT-EARED OWL.

Highlights of the Sequim/Dungeness CBC on the 21st include: An OSPREY
at Diamond Point; 3 SNOW BUNTINGS, 11 AMERICAN PIPITS, 11 SNOWY OWLS,
and a bunch of ANCIENT MURRELETS off Dungeness Spit.

A NORTHERN HAWK-OWL was reported on the 16th from Upper Columbia Academy
in Spangle. There have been no subsequent reports.

Paul Cozens
wcozens at earthlink.net