- RBA
* Washington
* Seattle
* 28 April1998
* WASE9804.28

- Birds mentioned:

Ferruginous Hawk
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Solitary Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Baird's Sandpiper

hot line: Seattle
date: April 28, 1998
number: (206) 933-1831
coverage: Mainly Western Washington, occasionally elsewhere
compiled: 9:30 p.m. 04-28-1998
transcribed by: Paul Cozens
email: wcozens at earthlink.net

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For information on field trips or other Audubon issues
call the Audubon office at 206 523-4483 from 10 to 4 Monday-Saturday.

For the most recent bird news call the Washington Ornithological
Society's BirdBox at 425 454-2662.

A breeding plumaged BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was seen in the morning on the
28th at the Kent Ponds, off 212th.

Two SOLITARY SANDPIPERS were at the Mottman Road storm water Ponds in
Olympia on the 28th.

The regularly occurring Eastern Washington birds are now present, most
in appropriate habitat. BLACK-NECKED STILTS and AMERICAN AVOCETS are
back at Othello and LONG-BILLED CURLEWS are scattered with a few seen
near Royal City.

Other reported recent Spring arrivals in Eastern Washington include:

FORSTER'S TERN
WHITE-THROATED SWIFT
BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD
GRAY FLYCATCHER
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW

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