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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 by Lisa Smith 8:15PM, May 10.

10:18 PM, May 10 - Steve Dang, 368-6887. Late this afternoon at the Mountlake
Fill on the main pond was a Spotted Sandpiper.

9:19 AM, May 11 - Hi, this is Sam Terry at (206) 329-9038. Earlier this
morning there were a few Western Tanagers on the hillside behind my house
with some Wilson's Warblers, one Western Wood-Pewee and one Black-throated
Gray Warbler. Last night around 8:00 there was a large flock of Vaux's Swifts
around. Thanks, goodby.

10:13 AM, May 11 - Hi, this is Scott Downes 361-7073. Yesterday Jim Flynn and
I did a big day in King Co. and among the highlights were 3 Black Terns, a
Blue-winged Teal and several Cinnamon Teal at Sikes(sp.) Lake near the
Crittenden(sp.) Farm in Snoqualmie Valley. Also at the Kent Sewage Ponds
there were good numbers of shorebirds including Western, Least, Dunlin and a
dowitcher believed to be a Long-billed. But the real highlight there was one
Black Tern and two Yellow-headed Blackbirds. Also a Solitary Sandpiper was
found just south of the Smith Brothers Dairy (?) on West Valley Highway.
Thanks a lot. Good luck and good birding.

10:39 AM, May ll - Gary Bletsch (360) 853-7203. Yesterday, a Hermit Warbler
was found in a large flock of Townsend's Warblers on Sauk Mountain near
Rockport in Skagit Co. That was at milepost 527. There's lots of snow there
but it's easy driving to get up there. Lower down on the mountain, were two
Nashville Warblers.

3:26 PM, May 11 - Hi, this is Jim Flynn at (206) 772-5568. Today at the Kent
Ponds, I was leading a Birdathon Trip and there was a pair of Wilson's
Phalaropes at the south end of the pond. The ponds are all fenced off and
hard to get to but they can be viewed from the south. Take West Valley
Highway and then go west on South 228th and right on 54th and again right on
226th. There's a warehouse, go behind there and view the ponds. The female
Yellow-headed Blackbirds were not there although there was a male
Yellow-headed Blackbird at the Clay Street Marsh in Auburn. The Solitary
Sandpiper Scott Downes mentioned earlier was not seen today. Thanks. Bye bye.

8:30 PM, May 11 - Hi, this is June Wilkinson and I spent the day at Discovery
Park today and on the southwest side of the meadow in the thick trees back in
there I saw what I'm almost absolutely positively sure was a White-throated
Sparrow. It was going through the deep woods in there and definitely had a
crown like a White-crowned Sparrow with the yellow mark above the eye and a
white throat

10:17 AM, May 12 - Hello, this is Franny Drobny (206) 286-1695 calling to
report seeing a Three-toed Woodpecker on Saturday May 10th on the beginning
part of the Dirty Face Peak Trail located behind the Ranger Station on the
north side of Lake Wenatchee off highway 207. I got a pretty good look at it.
It even flew to a tree right above me at one point. Also on Sunday May 10th
[?11th-trans] I saw an immature Golden Eagle on the north ridge of Swakane
Canyon about 2.8 miles up the canyon which is located about 5 miles north of
Wenatchee. That's it for now. Good birding and goodby.

[Messages last checked at 12:05 PM May 12, 1997].