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Transcribed by Franny Drobny, Seattle, Washington,
fdrobny at cairncross.com, phone (206) 286-1695 evenings. Please contact
me by e-mail if you have any corrections, comments, or questions.
Mailbox previously checked by Franny Drobny on Monday, March 30, 1998,
at 11:30 a.m.

April 5, 1998, Sunday, 7:30 a.m. Hi, this is Dave Beaudette. (206)
365-2083. On April 4, a ROCK SANDPIPER was seen with 25 BLACK
TURNSTONES on the rocks at the water's edge at the northern shoreline of
the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County. The spot was adjacent to state
route 112 at mile mark 3.9. Bye.
April 5, 1998, Sunday, 8:04 p.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today my
wife and I went out to Whidbey Island and then swung through the Samish
and Skagit flats areas. The highlight of the day was a reappearance of
our old friend the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE. To my great astonishment, this
bird was basically in the same field it was before. If you go to the,
for those who may not remember, that's at the Skagit headquarters and
you go down to the boat launch parking area, one field away from you is
a field where there is still corn stubble that's knee to thigh high.
You want to go down to the very end of that field. The hedgerow which
is on the river side, the river being one field over, is the hedgerow
that the bird was in and it was all the way at the end of the field
along that hedgerow, loosely associating perhaps with some Zonotrichia,
but mostly on its own. Also, along that same hedgerow, with a flock of
JUNCOS, there was still one AMERICAN TREE SPARROW. Other highlights for
today included a GLAUCOUS GULL at Cultus Bay on Whidbey Island. A
GLAUCOUS/GLAUCOUS WING hybrid near Coupeville on the road that goes from
Coupeville towards Crockett Lake. On the Samish flats, near the corner
of Sunset and Farm to Market Road, there was a hybrid male
EURASIAN/AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. And along March Point Road there
were two AMERICAN BRANTS in with the large numbers of BLACK BRANTS. The
other highlight was at Penn Cove at Kennedy's Lagoon, at the south end
of Penn Cove, there was a LESSER YELLOWLEGS in with the flock of GREATER
YELLOWLEGS that has been wintering there. That's it. Good luck and
good birding.
April 6, 1998, 6:45 a.m. Hello, this is Wayne Weber from Delta, B.C.
(604) 597-7201. Just to let people know that the female TUFTED DUCK was
still present on April 4 at the Green Road pond near Burlington,
Washington. The best viewing spot seems to be on Green Road looking
eastward from the vicinity of the farm house just south of the junction
with Kelleher Road. In addition to the female TUFTED DUCK there were at
least five male EURASIAN WIGEON along with hundreds and hundreds of
other waterfowl at this pond. Also, for the Vancouver area, the XANTUS'
HUMMINGBIRD is still being seen in the vicinity of Gibsons, B.C., but
very infrequently. It is not seen everyday now. For further
information on this bird, please phone the Vancouver Rare Bird tape at
(604) 737-0374. That's it for now. Bye-bye.

This transcription completed on Monday, April 6, 1998, at 10:13 a.m.