The Birdbox phone number is (206) 454-2662.

[messages previously checked at 8:30PM Nov 14]

11:06PM Nov 14 - Hi, this is Steven Mladinoff. News from British Columbia
revealed a Common Eider in West Vancouver and a Northern Parula at Port
Alberni on Vancouver Island. There is also a number of somewhat lesser
rarities such as piles of Snowy Owls, and a couple of Tufted Ducks and other
such things. There was also apparently about a week ago an Asiatic race of
Marbled Murrelet something which we should be paying attention for down here.
That bird was around Victoria somewhere. That's about it, good luck and good
birding.

5:04PM Nov 15 - Eric Mandell(sp?) 324-3174. Mid morning today was up at the
Skagit Wildlife Area. As reported before, at the Big Ditch Access Road, you
can walk down and along the dike and see the 5 Snowy Owls. They were out and
prominent. In addition, near there there is a mobile home resort. If you take
that road at the end we saw 3 Short-eared Owls and a Rough-legged Hawk. And
finally on Bow(sp?) Road off Marine Drive, at the corner there were many
Tundra and Trumpeter Swans. Then if you went down Bow Road - well over a
thousand Snow Geese. And, finally, at the end of the road on the right,
although it's on private property - you would have to look from the road -
there's 3 Snowy Owls - again not as good a sighting as on the Big Ditch
Access Road. A good day! Take care.

8:49PM Nov 15 - Hi. Robert Haussen(sp?) from Kirkland (206) 485-0226. This
isn't a current report but I thought it might be worth while anyway. Last
year at just about this time we for the first time recorded the Siberian race
of the Marbled Murrelet at the Edmonds Ferry Terminal or actually the Fishing
Terminal then. It probably hasn't been reported because it's not in most of
the books but it looks almost like a Kittlitz's Murrelet. It is less chubby,
I would say, than the Marbled Murrelet you traditionally see. But, most
obvious, it doesn't have the ring neck. I was able to get a photograph of it
and that was confirmed. So that might be something to be looked for at this
time of year again. I actually saw a pair of them. There were Northern
Marbled around with it so, who knows? It might be here even longer than
during the wintertime. Good luck. (transcribers note - I am quite sure I
remember that this is likly to be a future split)

[messages last checked at 9PM Nov 15]

Transcribed by:
Bob Norton
Joyce, WA
norton360 at aol.com
(360) 928-3053