[mailbox checked previously at 2:00 p.m. October 25th]

4:40 p.m. October 25th - John O'Connell, Camano Island, my number is
360-387-2059, reporting from the Stanwood sewage ponds. This afternoon in
the early afternoon at the ponds in a mixed group of dowitcher and DUNLIN
was a single juvenile SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER. Thanks.

7:58 p.m. October 25th - Vic Nelson. Today October 25th at Point No Point
at the northeast tip of the Kitsap Peninsula there was a large
concentration of gulls present in the middle of the day. I estimate 7000
to 8000 gulls of which about half of these were BONAPARTE'S [GULLS], with
up to a thousand or 1200 were HEERMANN'S, and probably a thousand or 1200
MEW, a couple of thousand GLAUCOUS-WINGED and 500 CALIFORNIA and there
were probably a few other odd ones in there. The one odd one I did see
was a first-winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE which was present this morning
and also there was a BROWN PELICAN in with all these gulls, and a couple
days ago there was a CLARK'S GREBE in with some WESTERN GREBES off the
point.

6:38 p.m. October 26th - This is Bob Norton from near Port Angeles,
928-3053. In Port Angeles there were three SNOW BUNTINGS today at Ediz
Hook just before the Coast Guard fence in the morning. And there were
four at the far end of the runway on the Coast Guard facility in the
afternoon. A great variety of other birds were seen with the most
noteworthy being one ROCK SANDPIPER, five PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVER, a
PEREGRINE FALCON harassing a SHORT-EARED OWL, my first BARROW'S GOLDENEYES
and THAYER'S GULLS of the season, and one WHIMBREL. Thank you. Bye.

[mailbox last checked at 10:00 a.m. on October 27th]

Hal Opperman
halop at u.washington.edu
206-635-0503