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Sunday, May 24, 5:45 PM: Hi. This is Dave Beaudette (206) 365-2083. I just
got back from a weekend in Grant County in central Washington. On Saturday May
23 and Sunday May 24. On Saturday at Frenchmen's Springs, a singing LEAST
FLYCATCHER. This bird was in the trees around the burned (?) building. At the
Quincy Sewage Ponds was a DUNLIN, a BLACK- BELLIED PLOVER, one BAIRD'S
SANDPIPER, 2 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 2 SEMI- PALMATED SANDPIPERS, 35 BLACK-
NECKED STILTS and 5 AMERICAN AVOCETS. A BURROWING OWL was on a post at Exit
179 which is the Moses Lake Exit, the northbound off ramp. At the south end of
Soap Lake was an adult FRANKLIN'S GULL and also a COMMON TERN. A calling POOR-
WILL was at mile mark 7.3 along State Route 155 at 11 PM. On Sunday in
Northrup Canyon 2 PRAIRIE FALCONS, a GOLDEN EAGLE and a LEWIS' WOODPECKER, all
in the first mile of the bottom trail. On log booms behind the Grand Coolee
Dam was a first winter ICELAND GULL and a first summer MEW GULL. These birds
were seen from the parking lot across from the Grand Coulee Dam Project
Office. Have a good day.

May 24, 7:08 PM: Hello. This is Rick Romea. Today Cindy Stricker (?) and I
went out to Ocean Shores. Birded from 10 AM to 3 PM. We saw many WHIMBRELS but
saw no BRISTLED-THIGHED CURLEWS. We did have a LARK SPARROW and 2 WANDERING
TATTLERS at the Game Range. I thought the LARK SPARROW was interesting.
Thanks. Good luck and good birding.

Monday, May 25, 9:58 AM: Hi. This is Mike Blue (?) from Renton and I'm
reporting from Ocean Shores. I also have seen a lot of WHIMBRELS from Sunday
to Monday and saw no sign of a BRISTLE-THIGHED CURLEW. The highlight on
Sunday, however, were 4 WILSON'S PHALAROPE at the pond on Damon Point. There
were 2 males and 2 females and nothing else unusual.

May 25, 4:41 PM: This is Douglas Marshall, (206) 270-8960. Yesterday, May 24,
I was out at the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge and I observed 3 BLACK-
NECKED STILTS, one AMERICAN AVOCET and one SPOTTED SANDPIPER and they were in
two ponds three tenths of a mile west of the intersection of the Marian Drain
Road and Ashue Road and that is in Section 20, Township 10, Range 19 east,
DeLorme Atlas page 37.

May 25, 7:11 PM: Hi. Jason Starfire (206) 542-3756. Just a brief correction
to my post that you will hear in a few messages. The site where we had the
LEAST FLYCATCHER, REDSTART and the RED-EYED VIREO was not Lower Hardy Canyon
but, in fact, what they call the Oak Creek Bebop (?) (?feedlot??) and it is
just down the road from Hardy Canyon. So, good luck and good birding.

May 25, 10:48 PM: Hello. This is Dave Beaudette, (206) 365-2083. This report
is for Monday, May 25 and for King County. At the Kent Ponds these birds were
seen from the asphalt pathway that runs along the southern perimeter: 19 BLACK
SWIFTS in low flight overhead, 2 BANK SWALLOWS and 2 OSPREYS on steel towers
at the Green River near the intersection of that asphalt pathway and Russell
Road and at the Mountlake Fill a SORA at Shoveler Pond near a bullrush patch
at the north end of that pond. Thank you.

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 Tuesday, May 26, 10:10 AM.