Subject: Washington BirdBox 28-30 Nov 96
Date: Nov 30 22:34:33 1996
From: "H. Opperman" - halop at u.washington.edu


Transcribed by Hal Opperman
halop at u.washington.edu
phone (206) 635-0503

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[Mailbox previously checked at 9:30 p.m. November 28, 1996.]

9:32 a.m. November 29th - This is David Beatty in Hoquiam. On Friday
November 29th at about 8:30 in the morning there were at least five SNOWY
OWLS still at Damon Point in Ocean Shores. They are just south and east
of the pond at Damon Point. Bye.

5:58 p.m. November 29th - Hi. Ed Deal in Seattle at 723-4742. At the
mouth of the Skagit River headquarters area that's been mentioned
previously in messages there were a single WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and an
AMERICAN TREE SPARROW. The other unusual birds were not detected today.
Also up at the West 90 on the Samish Flats there were five SNOWY OWLS and
a NORTHERN SHRIKE. And down at Big Ditch there were another five SNOWY
OWLS. Good luck and good birding!

6:23 p.m. November 29th - Paul Hicks from Tenino, area code 360-264-2462.
Today at Nisqually a SNOWY OWL was seen by myself and Bernie and Louise
Martel. Also recently sighted there according to the records are a
PEREGRINE FALCON, three SHORT-EARED OWLS, a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. In the
area of the South Bay marina in Olympia a WILLET is still there. A
PEREGRINE FALCON was cruising around Capitol Lake. And a few weeks back
Stan Smith saw a PALM WARBLER at Nisqually range or Nisqually wildlife
refuge near the barns.

8:07 p.m. November 29th - Gary Bletch, 360-853-7203. Today at the Fir
Island game range were about four or more BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS with about ten
CEDAR WAXWINGS, also two WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS. Could not find the
[NORTHERN] WATERTHRUSH, could not find the [AMERICAN] TREE SPARROW, spent
quite a while looking through blackbird flocks and still no RUSTY
[BLACKBIRDS] could be found.

11:46 p.m. November 29th - Hi. This is Carolee Coulter in Seattle. On
Thanksgiving Day I walked out to Dungeness Spit and near the junction with
Graveyard Spit saw an immature SNOWY OWL. Also ran into other people who
reported more SNOWY OWLS further out on Graveyard Spit.

3:40 p.m. November 30th - This is Steve Giles at 783-9346. This morning
between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. approximately Kraig Kemper and myself and a
number of other birders saw the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at the end of Wiley
Road at the headquarters of the Skagit national (sic) wildlife refuge.

4:34 p.m. November 30th - Hi! This is Steve Mlodinow. Yesterday November
29th I birded from the Lyle area to John Day Dam. At Bingen I missed the
TUFTED DUCK. At Balt (?) Lake Road I missed ACORN WOODPECKERS but did get
a couple LESSER GOLDFINCHES. I had four more LESSER GOLDFINCHES in the
town of Maryhill towards the east side of that town. Also at Maryhill
State Park I had two BARROW'S GOLDENEYES and a late "pugetensis"
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and five "CACKLING" [CANADA] GEESE. Between
Maryhill and John Day Dam I had a "SOOTY" FOX SPARROW and a SNOW GOOSE,
and at John Day Dam there was an immature BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE almost to
the day a year after I had one last year. That's about it for most of the
highlights. And today Bill Tweit, Sonny Finnegan, and I birded around
Ridgefield, didn't have much. There were five TRUMPETER SWANS at the
River Unit and a RED-THROATED LOON on Vancouver Lake. That's it. Good
luck and good birding!

[Mailbox last checked at 10:00 p.m. November 30, 1996.]