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Transcribed by Franny Drobny, Seattle, Washington, phone (206) 892-3222
daytime or email at fdrobny at cairncross.com <mailto:fdrobny at cairncross.com> .
Please contact me if you have any corrections, comments or questions.

Mailbox previously check on Monday, August 23, 1999, at 2:48 p.m.

August 24, 1999, Tuesday, 10:17 p.m. Hello, this is Dave Beaudette at (206)
365-2083. This report for the 24th of August at the Jensen Access to the
Skagit Wildlife Area in Skagit County. A single, adult AMERICAN GOLDEN
PLOVER was at this access. Seen well and heard calling. That's all. Good
birding.

August 27, 1999, Friday, 8:21 p.m. Hi, this is Gene Revelas from Tacoma
(253) 756-7834. I birded Ocean Shores this afternoon. At the Game Range,
there was a HUDSONIAN GODWIT, which I saw from the Tonkin Ave. access to the
Game Range on the north side. It was out a couple hundred yards on the mud
flats at about 4:30 this afternoon, which was about two hours after the high
tide. While I was watching it, it flew to the northwest or towards the
outer beach and I tried unsuccessfully to relocate it on the other beach for
a little bit. Other birds around were at the pond at Damon Point there was
a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and a SEMI-SANDPIPER, and there was a single LONG-BILLED
CURLEW at Bill's Spit. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

August 29, 1999, Sunday, 5:53 p.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Dennis
Duffey, Sam Terry and I went out to the WOS Conference in Yakima this
weekend. It was a fun, very fun time, but the birds were slow, and hence
there was a somewhat of a dearth of vagrants. A couple SOLITARY SANDPIPERS
and one SEMI-SANDPIPER was really it. Today, on the way back, the three of
us stopped at Montlake Fill. Near the large pond we had a young CHIPPING
SPARROW. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

August 30, 1999, Monday, 9:33 a.m. This is Charles Easterberg at the
University of Washington. I wanted to report a BROWN PELICAN which my
daughter and I saw at about halfway out Dungeness Spit on Saturday, August
28th about noon. We are both familiar with PELICANS, we've never seen them
there before and I thought this would be of interest. I'm at (206) 543-7209
Monday through Friday from 8 to 5. Thank you.

August 30, 1999, Monday, 2:20 p.m. Oh, hi, this is Steve Pink, phone number
(425) 649-0601. Went to a trip to the Okanogan with Jim Flynn, Steven
Jensen, Claire Bousier of the last few days. On Friday, at Bill Creek, we
had 4 SPRUCE GROUSE. At Thunder Mountain, a THREE-TOED WOODPECKER and a
couple of BOREAL CHICKADEES at Tiffany Mountain. On Saturday at Bonaparte
Lake, we had 4 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, and a couple more at Beaver Lake. On
Sunday, yesterday, in Kittitas County at Wanapum Dam, we had a PARASITIC
JAEGER. And in Douglas County also at Atkins Lake we had one WHIMBREL.
Thanks very much. Good luck and good birding.

August 31, 1999, Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today, I
mean yesterday, sorry, Dennis Duffey, Jason Starfire and I did the Skagit to
Whidbey loop, getting 114 species. There were a lot of migrants at the Game
Range. The highlights of which were 1 to 2 RED-EYED VIREOS, 4 HAMMOND'S
FLYCATCHERS and a HOUSE WREN. There are also a good number of the more
common species of WARBLERS with about 50 or so YELLOWTHROATS, 40 or so
YELLOW WARBLERS and 25 or so ORANGE-CROWNS, about a dozen WILLOW FLYCATCHERS
and a couple PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHERS. At the sea off of Swantown we had a
PARASITIC JAEGER. At Crockett Lake there were about 20,000 or so WESTERN
SANDPIPERS, a very unusual flock of 380 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 2 STILT
SANDPIPERS, 3 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS and 100 to 200 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.
That's about it. Good luck and good birding. Oh, one other thing. a
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON adult on the Skagit Game Range. Take care.

Transcription completed on Tuesday, August 31, 1999, at 5:24 p.m. by Franny
Drobny.






























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