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Transcribed By: Jason Coughlin-Starfire~Shoreline, WA.
ChemBros81 at aol.com
(206) 542-3756

Messages previously checked at 7:57 PM on May 23

2:02 PM, May 28 - Hi this is Alan Knue at 706-2550 in Seattle. About an =
hour
ago at 1 o=92clock I saw a YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD. It was either a youn=
g male
or female. It was on the corner of ???( sounds like Wazon) and Ravenna, =
near
Greenlake and I saw it from the 48 bus as I was going by. That=92s all, =
good
birding.


2:38 PM, May 25 - Hi this is Mike Blue in Renton. Today at the Montlake =
Fill
was a WILSON=92S PHALAROPE.


1:37 PM, May 25 - Hi this is Steven Mlodinow, went to the Everett Sewage
Ponds and Spencer Island and a lot of the old friends are back. The EAST=
ERN
KINGBIRD is along the dike at Spencer Island at the north-east side of th=
e
island. There are also AMERICAN BITTERNS at Spencer Island and there wer=
e
100+ BLACK SWIFTS over Spencer Island first thing in the morning. At the
Everett Sewage Ponds there was a BANK SWALLOW. There was a BARROW=92S
GOLDENEYE which is locally quite rare. There were also in general good
numbers of breeding species such as WILLOW FLYCATCHER, YELLOW WARBLER, an=
d
SWAINSON=92S THRUSHES. That=92s about it, good luck and good birding.


1:11 PM, May 25 - Hi this is Jack Stevens at (425) 742-8721. Yesterday o=
n
Saturday there was a single WILSON=92S PHALAROPE in the Edmonds marsh jus=
t to
the west of the ferry waiting area.

Messages last checked at 10:00 PM on May 28