Subject: WOS BirdBox Transcription January 12-14, 1997
Date: Jan 14 14:35:47 1997
From: Norton360 at aol.com - Norton360 at aol.com


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Ornithological Society. To leave a message about a notable sighting, or
to listen to the most recent messages, call (206) 454-2662 and follow
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Transcribed by: Bob Norton, Joyce, WA (near Port Angeles)
norton360 at aol.com
(360) 928-3053


(My apologies to anyone whose name I have mangled. If anyone can supply
correct spellings of peoples names or place names, I am trying to keep a list
of correct spellings so those corrections would be appreciated)


[Messages previously checked at noon January 12]

1:40 PM January 12 - This is Yvonne Bombardier (206) 348-8845. On the road to
Spencer Island there was a female Old Squaw in a small pond on the left hand
side of the road just past Dagmar Marina. The pond is at the end of the brick
wall that surrounds Dagmar Marina. The female Old Squaw was swimming with a
Pied-billed Grebe. That's it. Bye.

6:13 PM January 12 - Hello, this is Ben Freeman and today we birded the
Samish and Skagit areas and Whidbey Island. At the Stanwood Sewage Ponds were
visible about 10,000 Snow Geese in the morning. There was also one Harlan's
Red-tailed Hawk there. At the Big Ditch Access there were also about 8000
Snow Geese present there and a Northern Shrike and about 15 Western
Meadowlarks. At the West 90 there was one Short-eared Owl and one Snowy Owl.
On Thomas Road between Sunset and Field Roads there was also a Snowy Owl.
There were 6 Snowy Owls at the Big Ditch Access as well. There was one Eared
Grebe at Swantown on Whidbey Island and one Short-eared Owl at Crockett Lake.
Thanks and good birding.

7:11 PM January 12 - Hi, this is Dave Beaudette at (206) 365-2083. Today,
January 12, at the Everett Waterfront was a single Black Turnstone on a
logboom just north of the Public Boat Launch. Thank you.

9:19 PM January 12 - Bruce LaBar (206) 272-1058. Today at American Lake, I
again observed the wintering Litlle Gull. It can best be seen from the Henry
Codd(sp.) County Park which is sometimes closed. You have to find a way of
parking outside the park and walking in through the chain link fence and go
down to the various docks and view the lake from there and it's out with a
lot of Bonaparte' s Gulls and it's been there since December. So, good luck
and good birding.

9:42 PM January 12 - This is Evalyn Peaslee 782-9018. On Saturday, January 11
there was an immature Northern Shrike on the campus of North Seattle
Community College. It was in the sanctuary area in the northwest part of the
campus and it's accessible from the north end of the parking lot. In the
surge(?) pond between the parking lot and I-5 there were several ducks
including Hooded Mergansers and Ring-necked Ducks. Thats all, thanks.

11:05 PM January 12 - Hi, this is Stephen Mlodinow. There are a number of
good birds up in the Vancouver, B.C. area. These include Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker, Slaty-backed Gull, Common Eider as well as huge numbers of Snowy
Owls and a Gyrfalcon or two. There is also a Tufted Duck in Stanley Park.
Details on this can all be gotten from the Vancouver tape at (604) 737-3074.
Nigel Ball, Kathy Casteline(sp.), Dave Lawton(sp.) and myself went up there
looking for many of these things today. At the sapsucker site, in South
Surrey, we did not have the sapsucker but did have a White-throated Sparrow.
Along Boundry Bay between 64th and 72nd Street we had 35 Snowy Owls. Off
Point Roberts we had 90 Marbled Murrelets and at the southern tip of Point
Roberts in a brushy area we had a Slate-colored Fox Sparrow as opposed to the
usual Sooty Fox Sparrows which were present in good numbers. I think that
about covers it. Good luck and good birding.

[Messages last checked at 9AM January 14.]