Subject: WA BirdBox 29 Sept - 30 Sept
Date: Sep 30 16:46:59 1998
From: Franny Drobny - fdrobny at cairncross.com


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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 on Monday, September 28, 1998, at 2:15 p.m.

September 28, 1998, Monday, 9:11 p.m. Hi, Ed Deal (206) 723-4742.
Reporting on a trip to Ocean Shores and Tokeland as well, as the
previous report. The highlight this morning at the Game Range, a
SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER. This was from the Tonkin Avenue entrance to the
Game Range. Also in that area, 22 GOLDEN PLOVERS, a good number of them
PACIFICS and the rest hard to call. Out at Damon Point Pond, there were
4 LAPLAND LONGSPURS, 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 6 BAIRDS. Over at Bottle
Beach, about 280 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 5 MARBLED GODWITS. And down
in Tokeland at the 7th Street public access to the beach, about 350
MARBLED GODWITS, 1 BAR-TAILED GODWIT, about 42 LONG-BILLED CURLEWS, 14
CASPIAN TERNS. And out at Toe(?) Point, 77 BROWN PELICANS perched on
the pilings. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

September 28, 1998, Monday, 10:16 p.m. Hi, this is Dave Beaudette (206)
365-2083. This report for September 28 and King County. At Discovery
Park, the NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was seen at the usual site at the north
end of the south meadow at 9:00 a.m. At West Point were 2 PARASITIC
JAEGERS and at the lighthouse at West Point were 2 MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES,
including one of the roof on the lighthouse. And about 400 feet south
of the lighthouse, along the south beach, was a ROCK WREN on the
driftwood. And at the Fauntleroy ferry terminal at West Seattle was a
FORESTER'S TERN seen in the company of COMMON TERNS at about 3:45 p.m.
That's all for now. Bye.

September 30, 1998, Wednesday, 11:40 a.m. Hello, this is Scott
Atkinson. Off the 4:35 p.m. run of the Winslow to Seattle ferry
yesterday, I had a flock of 30 SURFBIRDS on a small cobble beach just
north of the Winslow ferry landing. About midway across there was also
an unidentified SHEARWATER heading northbound. It had white underparts.
That's all.

September 30, 1998, Wednesday, 1:51 p.m. Hello, this is Michael Hobbs
(425) 869-2370. This morning I birded Discovery Park and I located the
ROCK WREN down near the lighthouse and also the 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS.
Had some very good looks at them.

This transcription completed by Franny Drobny on Wednesday, September
30, 1998 at 4:53 p.m.