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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).

[BirdBox previously checked at about 11 AM, Saturday, July 5.]

5:42 PM, July 5 - Hi! This is Stephen Mlodinow. Went up and started at Iona
Sewage Ponds up in British Columbia today and then dodging squalls of rain
and bolts of lightning we worked our way through some other areas in the
Vancouver vicinity, birded Blaine and then stopped off in Everett on the way
home. I only had about the same stuff that Crockett Lake on Whidbey Island
had yesterday i.e. a couple thousand WESTERN SANDPIPERS, a couple hundred
LEAST SANDPIPERS, as expected there were a few more SEMI-PAMATED SANDPIPERS
up there but still only about 10 which for Iona is a small number. I had
another SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER at Beech Grove. I had another SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPER in with several hundred WESTERN SANDPIPERS at Blaine and then in
Everett had a Cackling Goose along the Everett Waterfront. I could not find
the BLUE type GOOSE, and could not find the ARCTIC TERNS again. I wonder if
their nesting attempt failed. Also, locally interesting, up in Blaine, we had
two RHINOCEROS AUKLETS. That's about it. Good luck and good birding. Oh, by
the way, anyone thinking of signing up for my field trip. It will be Sunday
not Saturday next weekend. Cheers!

10:56 AM, July 6 - This is Gail Joyce. We've been observing a beautiful
RED-THROATED LOON on the northern arm of Lake Washington at 110th and
Riviera, July 4 and again today Sunday, July 6th. Breeding plumaged and
staying 50 to 10 feet off the dock line.

1:47 PM, July 6 - Hi! Ed Deal, Seattle, 723-4742. I had 4 NORTHERN THREE-TOED
WOODPECKERS along the trail to Lake Caroline up the Icicle Creek Road out of
Leavenworth. I refer to the Mountaineers, 100 HIKES IN THE ALPINE LAKES for
directions. Once you are about 2 miles along the trail, you're in a burn
that's a few years old and there's ample sign of woodpecker work on the dead
trees. Know that the second part of the hike is very steep and quite buggy.
Also there's abundant Fireweed which should bloom within two weeks and this
should be a good hike for hummingbirds.

[Birdbox last checked at 7:35 AM, Monday, July 7.]