Subject: WA BirdBox 16 Mar - 22 Mar
Date: Mar 22 11:58:51 1999
From: Franny Drobny - fdrobny at cairncross.com


The Washington BirdBox is a voice mailbox sponsored by the Washington
Ornithological Society. To leave messages about a notable sighting, or to
listen to messages from the last seven days, call (425) 454-2662 and follow
the prompts. Hal Opperman, system administrator, personal phone (425)
635-0503.
Transcribed by Franny Drobny, Seattle, Washington, phone (206) 286-1695
evenings. Please contact me by e-mail if you have any corrections,
comments, or questions. Mailbox previously checked on Monday, March 15,
1999, at 11:28 a.m.


March 18, 1999, Thursday, 4:01 p.m. Yes, this is Joe Miles. My number is
(253) 639-0123. I wish to report a sighting of an immature WOOD STORK
flying over the Black River rookery, heron colony, in Renton at the
intersection of Oaksdale and 7th Avenue. Saw it at approximately 4 o'clock
here on Thursday, March 18th. Again, an immature WOOD STORK. Thank you.

March 18, 1999, Thursday, 5:23 p.m. Hi, this is Teresa Michelson at (425)
485-4511 in Kenmore and I'd to report 3 WHITE-FACED WHISTLING DUCKS at the
Juanita Bay Park. They were swimming around near the western most boardwalk
and headed over towards the middle boardwalk and they were very easily
identified once I found my Costa Rica bird book. They were seen today from
3:30 to 4 p.m. and that's all I have to report.

March 19, 1999, Friday, 6:27 a.m. Dick Nelson at Point-No-Point at the
northeast tip of the Kitsap Peninsula. An adult LITTLE GULL has been here
sporadically for the last couple days. The best time to look for it this
weekend will be between about 10 o'clock and noon. Thank you. Good bye.

March 19, 1999, Friday, 11:43 a.m. This is Bob Sundstrom, 762-4327,
reporting for March 18th. Just reporting huge concentrations of SANDHILL
CRANES seen mostly west of Othello from the County Line Ponds along Highway
26 and then on through the Crab Creek National Wildlife Refuge. There were
of at least 300 CRANES sitting at the County Line Ponds and hundreds of
others in the air, a total of at least a 1,000 seen through the refuge. In
addition, both NORTHERN and LOGGERHEAD SHRIKES and a few other early spring
arrivals like SAY'S PHOEBE, VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW. That's all for now.

March 19, 1999, Friday, 3:00 p.m. Hello, this is Helen Ross from Seattle
Audubon Society, 523-0722. Stephanie McPheeney(?) and I saw 2 SAY'S PHOEBE
at the Union Bay Natural Area also knows as Montlake Fill Thursday, March
18th, at about 5:30 next to Shoveler's Pond.

March 19, 1999, Friday, 3:26 p.m. This is Mike Wile(?) birding with Michael
Mann in the Snoqualmie River Valley. On 284th Avenue just across from Sykes
Lake where the road runs against the river, there is a SAY'S PHOEBE. Today
is Friday afternoon about 3:30 in the afternoon. Thanks and good birding.

March 19, 1999, Friday, 10:59 p.m. Hi, this Yvonne Bombadier and this must
be the time of the year that SAY'S PHOEBES made it over to the west side.
Marti and I birded the Samish and Skagit Flats today and we found 1 SAY'S
PHOEBE on Thomas Road. The bird was on fence posts and wires north of
Sunset, but south of Chuckanut, which is Highway 11. Also today we saw
EURASIAN WIGEONS mixed in with almost every flock of AMERICAN WIGEONS that
we saw and we found a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at the Skagit Game Range. Thank
you.

March 20, 1999, Saturday, 10:12 a.m. This is Dennis Duffey. This morning
there was a Eurasian form of GREEN-WINGED TEAL in the Edmonds marsh(?)

March 20, 1999, Saturday, 9:44 p.m. This is Douglas Marshall (206) 270-8960
for Saturday the 20th of March. 9:20 a.m. at Discovery Park, northwest of
the Visitor's Center on the loop trail, I had a COMMON RAVEN fly overhead
and it was being mobbed by crows.

March 20, 1999, Saturday, 9:49 p.m. Hello, this is Dave Beaudette (206)
365-2083. Today, March 20th, I relocated the SAY'S PHOEBE that Yvonne had
yesterday along Chuckanut Drive in Skagit County. Today I found the bird at
2:19 p.m., about a mile and a half north of yesterday's location. It was
seen along Chuckanut Drive about .2 of a mile south of the intersection with
the Bow Hill Road. Good birding.

March 21, 1999, Sunday, 4:30 p.m. Hello, this is Michael Hobbs (425)
869-2370. Today, Sunday, March 21st at about 3:30 at Marymoor Park in
Redmond I saw a SAY'S PHOEBE. It was in the meadow just east of the
interpretive trail. Follow the signs to the interpretive trail parking lot
and it will be on the meadow just to the east of the trail.

March 21, 1999, Sunday, 4:54 p.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Dennis
Duffey and I birded from Blaine to the Skagit Game Range today. At the
Lummi Flats, just south of Slater Road on Red River Road, there was a
PRAIRIE FALCON. Nearby there was an EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. At Birch
Bay there was a REDHEAD and two Atlantic-type BRANT. At Blaine there were a
couple EARED GREBES and at the Skagit Headquarters there was a TREE SPARROW
and a couple TURKEY VULTURES, and in a backyard in Bayview there was a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. All that adds up to about 102 species today.
That's it. Good luck and good birding.

March 21, 1999, Sunday, 9:44 p.m. This is Rick Sanders (206) 567-4144.
Today Dave Swayne and I birded around the Ellensburg area primarily along
the Umtanum Road and right near where the dirt road intersection is, we saw
a FERRUGINOUS HAWK, which circled right above us for a time and then
departed heading in a north, northeast direction. Also in that area we also
saw 2 GRAY PARTRIDGES and a NORTHERN SHRIKE. That's all for now.

Transcription completed by Franny Drobny on Monday, March 22, 1999, at 11:57
a.m.

















[INFO] -- Content Manager:
Privileged and confidential communication. If you are not the addressee, you may not read, copy, or distribute this email. If you receive this email in error, please advise us by return email and call (206) 587-0700. Thank you.