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Birdbox previously checked about 9 PM, May 2nd.

Saturday, May 2, 10:57 PM: Hi! This is Stephen Mlodinow. Today Jim Flynn and
I took the 6 AM Ferry from Mukilteo on to Whidbey Island, birded Whidbey
Island until about noon finding about 111 species on the Island and then
birded our way back towards Everett. We had 135 birds overall today with good
variety. A couple of rarities including a breeding plumage AMERICAN GOLDEN
PLOVER at the Jensen Access of the Skagit Game Range. There was a SOLITARY
SANDPIPER near Stanwood. Take Marine View Drive south of Stanwood, go east on
Norman Road, and the SOLITARY was in the first pond on the left. There were
two more SOLITARY SANDPIPERS on Ebey Island. Go south on Home Acres Road from
US 2 and the first big pond on your left visible from Home Acres Road is where
those birds were. There were also 132 WHIMBREL seen just off of Norman Road.
The road that heads north just west of 28th. Sorry I don't remember the number
of that road, but go north on that road and in the plowed field were 132
WHIMBREL and some BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Other highlights included: at Penn
Cove, 150 BLACK TURNSTONES, 15 RUDDY TURNSTONES, and 51 SURFBIRDS: at Fort
Casey State Park in the Picnic Area there was a SLATE-COLORED type FOX
SPARROW and at the Padilla Bay side of March Point there was a GREATER WHITE-
FRONTED GOOSE. That's about it. Good luck and good birding.

Sunday, May 3, 8:45 AM: Hi! This is Stephen Mlodinow. One thing I left off
from the report you are about to hear next [preceding in the transcription]
was 2 REDHEADS at Stanwood Sewage Ponds. Those birds were seen yesterday which
was Saturday the 2nd. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

May 3, 11:32 AM: Here is a report received this morning from Patrick
Sullivan, phone (253) 564-7419. On Friday, May 1st along Beaver Creek Road
near Cathlamet in Wahkiakum County, 4 HERMIT WARBLERS, one TOWNSEND'S
SOLITAIRE, 2 WESTERN BLUEBIRDS and 2 GRAY JAYS. At Julia Butler Hanson White-
tailed Deer NWR west of Cathlamet, one PELAGIC CORMORANT, one SORA and 6
PURPLE MARTINS. At the Grays River Fish Hatchery in Pacific County, 2 AMERICAN
DIPPERS. At Ledbetter State Park in Pacific County, 85 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GEESE, 2 TURKEY VULTURES, a PEREGRINE FALCON, 92 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 16
SNOWY PLOVERS, one WHIMBREL, one RUDDY TURNSTONE, 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 2
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS, 12 HERMIT THRUSHS, one WESTERN KINGBIRD, 3 HUTTON'S
VIREOS, 6 TOWNSEND'S WARBLERS and 2 WESTERN TANAGERS. At Ilwaco one EURASIAN
WIGEON. At the Fort Canby State Park, North Jetty of the Columbia River, 3
WANDERING TATTLERS and a RUDDY TURNSTONE. And, finally a late TRUMPETER SWAN
at the Lewis Unit of Wilapa NWR in Pacific County. On May 2 on the Westport
Pelagic Trip, one MURPHEY'S PETREL, one LONG-TAILED JAEGER and one FLESH-
FOOTED SHEARWATER. At Westport, 3 BROWN PELICANS and a GREAT EGRET. At Bottle
Beach in Grays Harbor County, 78 RED KNOTS and 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES and,
finally, at Bowerman Basin, 2 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS. Thank you.

May 3, 6:08 PM: Hi! This is Jim Flynn at (206) 772-5568. Today at the
Montlake Fill in Seattle there was a BLUE-WINGED TEAL, several CINNAMON TEAL,
and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER and at the Kent Ponds about 4 PM this afternoon there
was a CINNAMON TEAL, 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS and 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS.
Thanks, Bye Bye.

May 3, 9:19 PM : Hi! This is Stephen Mlodinow. Today at the ponds just north
of the Everett Sewage Pond there was a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. At the Everett
Sewage Ponds itself there were 14 REDHEADS and at the Port of Everett there
was a PURPLE MARTIN. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

Monday, May 4, 8:27 AM : Hi! This is Sandy Kernast (253) 638-0360. There
were 2 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at Nisqually NWR over the weekend.
Specifically, Sunday afternoon, May 2nd. They were on the Brown Farm Dike
Trail just west of the Observation Tower. If you turn to face south, so that
the tidal mud flats are behind you, they were seen in a small little pond in
the middle of the refuge. This report was confirmed by the staff of the refuge
and by other birders who were there that day. Thanks, good birding!

Transcribed by Bob Norton, Joyce (near Port Angeles), Washington,
norton360 at aol.com, (360) 928-3053. Please notify me of any mangling of names
etc. Birdbox last accessed about 10 AM, May 4th..