transcribed by Lisa M. Smith
<subplot at juno.com>
Seattle WA (206) 523-9229
[Please let me know via e-mail about misspellings and other errata.
Thanks!]

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[Messages previously checked at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday 26 March 1997.]

9:12 a.m. 03-26-97: Hi, this is Michael Preba, 623-7798. This isn't a
very earth-shattering report, but at the Montlake Fill [in Seattle] there
was still a small flock of CACKLING [CANADA] GEESE, about 5 of them,
keeping pretty much to themselves. Thanks. Good-bye.

2:36 p.m. 03-26-97: My name is Helen Hawley. My number is 363-2441. On
Saturday March 22 about 9:30 a.m., I saw and heard a MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD at
Dabob Bay [west of Hood Canal] at the north end of Long Spit. I guess you
don't need to know anything else.... It was a male in full breeding
plumage, obviously out of his element. Good-bye.

9:04 p.m. 03-26-97: Hi, this is Tom Aversa, 782-7342. Nothing too crazy
or anything, just...I had 9 SNOWY OWLS today. Five were up on the Flats,
the Samish Flats, a little bit south of where the river crosses
Bayview-Edison. And there were also four on Stanwood across the slough
from Idie Road there. You can see them from there. There was also a
HARLAN'S HAWK in that area. Let's see...WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS still at
the game range up at Skagit, Fir Island. Also, a couple GREAT HORNED
OWLS, one at the Skagit Game Range and a bird on the nest at the north
end of the cemetery in Stanwood up on the hill there, up on the Pioneer
Highway.

[No messages on tape for Thursday 27 March 1997.]

2:43 p.m. 03-28-97: Hi, this is Greg Toffic. Yesterday I birded some in
Snohomish and Skagit County and on Whidbey Island. The only thing of real
note were 13 BLACK OYSTERCATCHERS at Partridge Point on Whidbey Island.
They were flying across the point with an adult BALD EAGLE just casually
and seemingly disinterestedly following, but the oystercatchers weren't
taking any chances. I never did see them light, although they attempted
to put down onto the rocks but kept being spooked off by the eagle.

[Messages last checked at 7:30 p.m. Friday 28 March 1997.]