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Transcribed by Franny Drobny, Seattle, Washington, phone (206) 892-3222
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Mailbox previously check on Friday August 6, 1999 at 3:40 p.m.


August 6, 1999, Friday, 6:25 p.m. Hi, Tom Aversa, 782-7342. The lab(?)
rating on the previous two reports I birded Gray's Harbor area yesterday and
2 BAR-TAILED GODWITS still present at Tokeland. Probably the same two birds
that Steve saw, they matched the description. Also, there was 4 LONG-BILLED
CURLEWS down there. I don't know how many MARBLED GODWITS were there the
day he was there, but there was a 100 there and I had the birds at low tide,
right at the marina, so it might be a good bet if you want to get over to
Ocean Shores for the high tide. The jetty at Ocean Shores on the late high
tide was even maybe more spectacular. Birds feeding on fish just north of
the jetty and right off the jetty. Loads of SHEARWATERS and all of these
previously mentioned common species.

August 7, 1999, Saturday, 8:10 a.m. This is Bill Shelmerdine in Olympia,
866-9106, and yesterday my brother and I birded the Ocean Shores area and
most interesting was the presence of 3 MURRELETS, one of which was seen from
the jetty area and was clearly a MARBLED MURRELET and 2 were seen from Damon
Point area at the southern most projection near the tip. Those birds were a
little more problematic. They were quite a distance out and there were a
lot of feeding birds, including lots of alcids, many RHINOS and PIGEON
GUILLEMOTS, COMMON MURRES, etc. Out further out toward the jetty there were
tens of thousands of SOOTY SHEARWATERS. At least one bird was partially
albinistic with a mostly white body on the back belly, and a very
interesting look to it. There was a CLARK'S GREBE and CASSIN'S AUKLET among
the many other alcids there. There's a lot of birds around. Good luck and
good birding.

August 7, 1999, Saturday, 9:08 p.m. Hi, this is Sam Terry, (206) 329-9038.
Today at Crockett Lake on Whidbey Island there was one juvenile SOLITARY
SANDPIPER and there were also a few SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS. That's it.
Good luck and good birding.

August 7, 1999, Saturday, 10:47 p.m. Hi, it's Steven Mlodinow. Today
Dennis Duffey, Steve Pink and I went up and birded the Vancouver area. Near
Blaine, on the Washington side, on Drayton Harbor, the two WHITE PELICANS
are still present. At Point Roberts, off Lilly Point, there were about 350
RHINO AUKLETS, which was a good count for this location. At the base of
Tswassen Ferry Terminal there was a WILLET. At Reifel Refuge there was a
juvenile RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and WILSON'S PHALAROPE. At Iona Sewage Ponds
at high tide, there were about 15 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS,
and about 50 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS. At Roochen(?) at low tide but while
raining early in the morning we had about 50 BAIRD'S and 30 PEC'S at Iona.
And along Boundary Bay at the end of, I think it's 88th, it's where a very
large building's on the foreshore, it's called "the mansion" by locals, on
the foreshore there - there were 1,370 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, a MARBLED
GODWIT, a RED KNOT and a RUDDY TURNSTONE and at Serpentine's fen we had
another WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and finally at Blackie's Spit we had 2 WHIMBREL
and a LONG-BILLED CURLEW, giving us 23 species of shorebirds for the day.
That's it. Good luck and good birding.

August 9, 1999, Monday, 6:45 a.m. Hello, this is Scott Atkinson.
Yesterday, August 8th, I briefly stopped by the Jensen Access to the Skagit
Game Range. There was a flock of six STILT SANDPIPERS there. That's all.

August 10, 1999, Tuesday, 5:32 p.m. Hi, Tom Aversa, 782-7342. Just want to
report an immature SORA at the Montlake Fill this morning in the southeast
pond. A very cooperative bird, easy to see. Maybe a transient, I don't
know if they've bred there this year. Some other signs of movement over
there were ORANGE-CROWNED and YELLOW WARBLER. Thanks.

August 10, 1999, Tuesday, 11:47 p.m. Paul Hicks here, (360) 264-2462,
reporting for Monday the 9th at Ocean Shores, correct that, at Westport
Jetty near the beacon at low tide, a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, a probably
second-year adult in winter plumage.

August 11, 1999, Thursday, 12:30 p.m. Hi, it's Sam Terry, (206) 329-9038.
Today, around 10:30 at the Montlake Fill, there was one juvenile
SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER with a few LEASTS and WESTERNS. That's it. Good
luck and good birding.

August 11, 1999, Thursday, 2:39 p.m. John O'Connell, Camano Island, (360)
387-2059. Today, August 11th at the Stanwood Sewage Ponds at approximately
11:15 a.m., there was a single adult, basic-plumaged FRANKLIN'S GULL.
Thanks.


Transcription completed by Franny Drobny on Thursday, August 12, 1999, at
5:47 p.m.























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