Subject: Blue Jays -Reply
Date: Nov 04 18:03:54 1997
From: Howard Ferguson - FERGUHLF at dfw.wa.gov


Another blue jay was seen Nov 2 in Chewelah in Eastern Washington.

Last week around Spokane:
At Bear Lake - 350 Canada geese and 1 white fronted goose

Around Newman Lake
1 Snow Bunting (only 1 - I couldn't find any others!)
275 Canada geese
45 hooded mergansers
50 common mergansers
8 green-winged teal
1 blue-winged teal
4 wood ducks
125 coots
125 mallards
80-85 ring-bill gulls
1 herring gull
10 bufflehead
1 common loon

several Northern Shrikes around the area.
2 long-billed dowitchers .

and my first rough-legged hawk of the season was seen just west of
Pullman.

Howard Ferguson
Spokane, WA