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Saturday, November 27, 7:07 AM. Paul Hicks here, (360) 264-2462, reporting
for Friday, November 26th. At the Skagit Wildlife Management Area, about 100
yards past the county road ends sign, that would be Wylie Road, about even
with the pheasant cages, I heard a song, or partial song, perhaps a sparrow,
but a song I'd never heard before. It might be worth checking out. Good luck.
Good birding.

Saturday, November 27, 1:47 PM. This is Dennis Duffy. There is a GREAT EGRET
in the pond at the Monroe Prison Farm, just south of Monroe.

Saturday, November 27, 3:55 PM. This is Hank Veil calling from (broken
transmission). Today, Saturday, November 27th at the Hoquim Sewage Treatment
Pond between 2 and 3 PM I saw a male CHESTNUT -COLLARED LONGSPUR. The bird
was along the road to the Sewage plant on the south side of the pond.

Saturday, November 27, 3:59 PM. Ian Paulson has requested that this report be
posted on the bird box and I'll read his e-mail message verbatim. I just got
a call from Jim Oakland, who was calling for Hank Veil. Hank just found a
basic plumage male CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR at the Hoquim Sewage Treatment
Plant today. According to Jim, Hank had it on the bay side of the plant. This
message was received today, Saturday at about 3 o'clock. Thank you.

Saturday, November 27, 4:18 PM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today I birded
from Post Office Lake and Vancouver Lake up to Woodland. The highlight of the
day was a ROSS' GOOSE. It was on the road between Vancouver Lake and Post
Office Lake with a large flock of CACKLING GEESE. It may well be the same
bird that Bob Sunstrum had a week or so ago at Sauvie Island. Other
highlights included a RED-THROATED LOON at Vancouver Lake. Also, on one of
the pheasant hunting areas, between Post Office Lake and Vancouver Lake I had
7 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, 5 together in a flock in a wooded patch and 2
others with GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS. These areas tend to be extremely birdy,
but remember to wear hunter orange when you are birding there. Up around
Woodland, driving along Dike Access Road, I had a light phase (?) HAWK and a
very late OSPREY, as well as a YELLOW-SHAFTER FLICKER. That's about it. Good
luck and Good birding.

Saturday, November 27, 8:26 PM. Hi, Sam Terry, (206) 329-9038. Birding around
Marrowstone and Indian Island today in Jefferson County. At Oak Bay County
Park there was a ROCK SANDPIPER and on Marrowstone itself, at Ft Flagler at
that sand spit on the bay side there were 3 RED KNOTS. That's it. Good luck
and good birding.

Sunday, November 28, 10:05 AM. This is Bob Morse, reporting from the Hoquim
Sewer Treatment Plant Area, where the CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR was again
seen this morning around 8:30 and was still being seen as of 10:00 this
morning.

Sunday, November 28, 2:12 PM. Hi. Scott Downes, 361-7073. First, in addition
to Bob Morse's report, the LONGSPUR was observed in Hoquim until at least 11
o'clock there at the treatment pond, when the rest of us left. Coming home
this morning, on Brady Loop Road, which is just south of Brady, west of
Aberdeen found 2 SNOW BUNTINGS and an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER in the fields
along Brady Loop Road. That's about it. Good luck and good birding.

Sunday, November 28, 4:25 PM. Hi, this is John O'Donnell, calling with a
report for this afternoon. At about 2:30 my wife and I birded St. Edward's
Park in Bothell. And in some tall conifers adjacent to the main seminary
building of St. Edwards we saw a pair of RED CROSSBILLS. They were
accompanied by some PINE SISKINS. Also walking the trails in the park we got
very good look at PILIATED WOODPECKER tearing into a tree trunk along side a
FLICKER. That's all. Good birding.

Sunday, November 28, 9:35 PM. Hi, this is Kevin Onroud, (206) 523-6195.
Birding along the Lowell River Road today, between Lowell and Snohomish, I
had 2 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS, and a couple of ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. These
were seen in the vicinity of the Lowell Riverfront boat launch, near the main
parking lot and by working up the road, upriver, for several hundred yards.
Also working from the Snohomish access of the Lowell River Road, in driving
on Lowell River Road to its end where the orange dead end sign is, I found a
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD. It was feeding, working, in the brambles mostly and
also in the farm area, in the farm field, sitting on posts, to the right of
the river. And there is a green house there and a barn. And the bird could be
anywhere from the road to that area.

Monday, November 29, 7:11 PM. Hello, this is Craig Kemper, (206) 789-9255,
reporting for Monday afternoon, November 29. I was able to relocate the
NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, previously described by Kevin Onroud, on Lowell River
Road from the Snohomish access. the bird was in a deciduous tree northwest of
the greenhouse described, atop the dike. Thank you.


Messages last checked 6:19 AM, December 1, 1999.

Phil Kelley
Lacey, WA
(360) 459-1499
scrbjay at aol.com

We were few and they were plenty. Now we are plenty and they are few.
Confucius