Hi Franny,
On Saturday morning i reported the Sighting of the Common Goldeneye
xBuffelhead. This interesting Duck been there for three Winters.The message
was posted by Paul Cozens.Smew NOT!!!!
Ruth Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

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> From: Franny Drobny <fdrobny at cairncross.com>
> To: 'Tweeters Post' <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: 'raan' <raan at u.washington.edu>; 'sebnabgill' <sebnabgill at aol.com>
> Subject: WA BirdBox 27 Mar - 30 Mar
> Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 12:00 PM
>
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> Mailbox previously checked by Franny Drobny on Monday, March 23, 1998,
> at 3:50 p.m.
>
> March 27, 1998, Friday, 5:10 p.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow.
> Yesterday on my way up to have my eyes operated on, to be rid of
> contacts, we stopped at the Green Road pond north of Sedro Wooley. The
> female TUFTED DUCK was still there, along with a nice number of other
> Aythya ducks for comparison. To get to this pond, get off at Cook Road,
> go east to Green Road, make a left, and go toward Green Road ends in a
> T-intersection. The pond is obvious and on your right. Also, on the
> way back today, amazingly we fully sighted, we saw an OSPREY over the
> Everett Sewage Ponds, for my first returning bird of the spring. That's
> it. Good luck and good birding.
>
> March 27, 1998, Friday, 7:10 p.m. Rhane Kirkham, my phone number is
> (253) 941-7916. On Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27, my niece,
> who is also a birder, saw a SMEW, swimming with some GOLDENEYES and
> GREBES at the western end of Ruston Way in Tacoma, just before it goes
> into a tunnel on its way to Pt. Defiance. It might been seen anywhere
> along Ruston Way, but both times we saw it, it was towards the end.
> That's all. Thanks.
>
> March 28, 1998, Saturday, 2:42 p.m. Hi, this is Steve Mlodinow
> reporting from Tacoma. Dennis Duffy, Ted Peterson and I went down to
> look for the purported SMEW today. We did find an interesting bird at
> the location. It appears to be an aberrant COMMON GOLDENEYE with a
> mostly white head. Some green is present along the crown and on the
> back of the head. The rest of the bird, however, is pretty-much COMMON
> GOLDENEYE. It looks, at first glance, somewhat SMEW-like, but, indeed,
> it is not a SMEW. So that's it. Good luck and good birding.
>
> March 28, 1998, Saturday, 3:28 p.m. Hello, this is Scott Atkinson. I
> found the TUFTED DUCK this morning, March 28, just after dawn up at the
> Green Road pond as previously described. Also present, a COMMON
> YELLOWTHROAT and a CLIFF SWALLOW, both the first year that I've had.
> Then I had the PRAIRIE FALCON out on the West 90. The bird was perched
> on a telephone pole just north of the bend in the road. I also had a
> couple of HARLAN'S type RED-TAILED HAWKS in this area. One of them with
> a pure red tail and the odd-balled RED-TAILED HAWK that is distinctly
> barred and diamond-spotted on the breast, is still present. I would be
> interested in other people's opinions as to the subspecies of this bird.
> The best bird of the day: an adult SLATY-BACKED GULL at Lion's Park on
> Riverside Road, just north of old downtown Mt. Vernon. The bird was in
> with a large GULL flock, including five species on the beach, right
> along the Skagit River that is visible just opposite, on the other side,
> opposite the park, rather. I did see the white string of pearls as the
> bird took short flights. Watch for the bird, it is clearly much darker
> than any of the hybrids in the area. Also, later on, I had the first
> Pugetensis type WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW down at the Skagit Game Range.
> That's all. Good birding.
>
> March 30, 1998, Monday, 7:26 a.m. Hello, this is Wayne Weber, phoning
> from Delta, B.C., (604) 597-7201, with a few reports of returning
> migrants and other birds from March 27 and 28 in the vicinity of
> Wenatchee and points to the east. On March 27, a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
> was at Wenatchee Confluence State Park and the next day an OSPREY was
> seen there, as well. On March 27 and 28, had VESPER SPARROWS in several
> localities in the vicinity of Waterville and St. Andrews. This seems to
> be a few days earlier than usual. The rest of the sightings are all for
> the 28th. A CASSIN'S FINCH was singing from Badger Mountain, south of
> Waterville. In Moses Coulee, on the Moses Coulee Road, was seen about 4
> miles south of U.S. Hwy. 2, I had a least 8 WHITE-THROATED SWIFTS, 3
> newly returned LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES, including a pair together, and a
> couple of PRAIRIE FALCON. At Atkins Lake on U.S. Hwy. 2, a short
> distance west of Coulee City, there were large numbers of waterfowl, a
> couple of thousand NORTHERN PINTAIL. Unusual birds there included a
> male EURASIAN WIGEON in with about 600 AMERICAN WIGEON and 12
> WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, in with about 250 TUNDRA SWANS and 500 or 600
> LESSER CANADA GEESE. The WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were barely a 100 yards
> from the highway. Finally, near St. Andrews just at dusk, I heard a
> LONG-EARED OWL calling from a hedgerow. That's it for now.
>
> This transcription completed on Monday, March 30, 1998, at 11:30 a.m.