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Transcribed By: Jason Coughlin-Starfire~Shoreline, WA.
ChemBros81 at aol.com
(206) 542-3757

Messages previously checked at 10:00 PM on May 28

9:32 PM June 4 - Good evening, this is Brian Bell, (425) 485-8058. Today=
at
approximately 2:45, Michael Hobbs and I saw a BLACK-THROATED SPARROW on t=
he
east side of the ???(sounds like Wanapoe road) about 1.25 miles south of =
the
I-90 exit. The bird was singing, was a male, was perched on top of a sage
bush, and we were able to observe it and listen to it for about a minute=
and
half. Hope any one that goes looking for it finds it.


2:49 PM June 4 - This is Hugh Jennings, (425) 746-6351, in Bellevue,
Washington. I have a friend that lives a couple of blocks from the Phanto=
m
Lake Tennis Courts in Bellevue thats been reporting up to12 RED CROSSBILL=
S at
one of his sunflower seed feeders in his back yard. I finally got over t=
here
at about 2 o=92clock this afternoon and I definitely saw a pair of the RE=
D
CROSSBILLS. They said they=92ve been coming off and on and up to 12 of t=
hem.


6:05 PM June 3 - Hi, this is Brent Griffin, 329-4194, and for all you
Montlake Fill aficionados, at 5:15 today, June 3, there was a pair of WES=
TERN
KINGBIRDS, west of the main pond towards the football stadium in some bla=
ck
berry thickets with a sapling poking up through them. As well there was=
a
pair of spotted sandpiper and 5 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, males. So good luck an=
d
good birding.


5:16 PM June 3 - This is Dennis Duffy in Edmonds regarding Steve Mlodinow=
=92s
request for information on ARCTIC TERNS in Everett. I did see 2 ARCTIC T=
ERNS
on the Everett water front on May 14. They were on Jetty Island, right
between the South Marina-Anthony=92s area and Jetty Island. I did not re=
locate
them on two subsequent visits to the Everett water front. They were ther=
e
briefly. Thanks for listening, bye.


4:46 PM June 3 - Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today there were 42 MARBLE=
D
MURRLETTS off of the Edmonds fishing pear, some at virtually point blank
range. So if you want to a get good look at this bird in breeding plumag=
e,
that seems to be the place to do it. Good luck and good birding.


10:21 AM June 3 - Hi, my name is Randy Gray and I live on the Inglewood G=
olf
Course in NE Lake Washington up in Bothell. On June 1, at about 6:45 in =
the
evening a couple of large CHUKARS walked through my yard. Thanks.


10:53 AM June 2 - This is Ed swan, (206)725-5013. On June1, there was a L=
EAST
FLYCATCHER near Moses Meadow in Okanogan county.


10:54 PM June 1 - Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Casey Beachel and I went t=
o
Spencer Island and also poked around the Everett Sewage ponds and Everett
waterfront today. Highlights were BANK SWALLOW and PURPLE MARTIN. Have y=
et
to find the ARCTIC TERNS that usually hang around the Everett waterfront.=
If
anyone else has located these birds it=92d be good to put that on the Bir=
d Box.
That=92s about it, good luck and good birding.


6:45 PM June 1 - Hi, this is Scott Downs, 361-7073. This weekend I was o=
ver
at the Potholes with a group of birders from Kitsap Audubon. Among notewo=
rthy
sightings was a second hand report of another birder having 2 breeding
plumage FRANKLIN=92S GULLS at Potholes Lake State Park. The bird was see=
n at
approximately 6:45 yesterday morning. When I looked today I could not fin=
d
them. Other good birds was a SOLITARY SANDPIPER at the intersection of
Frenchman Hills Road and Dodson Road, the first noted BLACK TERN in the
Potholes region this year at about 9 o=92clock this morning, and also the=
other
good bird we had was a very active pair of BURROWING OWLS, along the ???
(sounds like Masters) and Highway 26, east of Othello. Probably about 3
miles east and right at the intersection with some young if you look
carefully. Thanks, good luck and good birding.


6:46 PM May 31 - Gary Bletch, (360) 853-7203. Today there were 3
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRDS at Corkendale Creek(sp.?), that is in Skagit co=
unty
just west of Marble Mountain at mile post 103.


6:49 PM May 30 - Robert and Mary Denell, (206) 543-1506. Yesterday,
Thursday the 29th around 12 noon, there were a pair of RED-NECKED PHALAR=
OPES
at Three Crabs Pond near Sequim. Thank you.

10:09 PM May 29 - Dave Swane, 932-6603. Lee Barns and I just got back fr=
om a
4 day boat trip to the eastern edge of Kittitas county on the Columbia ri=
ver,
north of vantage. A long way off and difficult to get to except by boat, =
but
we had 2 sightings that I thought worthy to report on the list. First wa=
s a
first-winter YELLOW-BILLED LOON, about 4 miles up river form Crescent Bar.
The second was a likely breeding pair of ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHERS about =
a 4
mile hike up Texan Creek(sp.?), there was also a single bird sighted on t=
he
mouth of ???(sounds like Quilimine) creek. =20

Messages last checked at 4:15 PM on June 6

PS. Sorry for the delayed transcription everybody!

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