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 Bob Norton. Please contact me at (360) 928-3053 or
at norton360 at aol.com if you have any corrections, comments, or questions.

BIRDBOX previously accessed May 17 about noon.

Monday, May 17, 9:55 PM. Hi, this is Stephen Mlodinow. The AUKLET was
not seen in the morning but was seen by Rick and Mike Toochin and Greg Toffic
and Ken Knittle and I think one or two others around 3 PM again near Kennedy
Lagoon, although it seemed like it was somewhat further out than when we saw
it yesterday. And, it was watched for a good hour or an hour and a half. I
was by later in the evening at high tide and could not find it. That's it.
Good luck and good birding.

Tuesday, May 18, 6:57 AM. This is Keith Taylor from Victoria, B.C.
The WHISKERED AUKLET was not seen on Monday. I am one of the observers that's
mentioned on the next message: Keith Taylor from Victoria, B.C., the Toochins
and two other birders and two other observers. We saw this ALCID a long,
long, long ways offshore and tentatively identified the bird, or tried to
make the bird into a WHISKERED AUKLET. In the end the bird turned out to be a
RHINOCEROS AUKLET. It swam past a SURF SCOTER and showed its size to be about
three quarters the size of a SURF SCOTER and also plopped (?) directly facing
on and showed the typical bicolored breast of a RHINOCEROS AUKLET, i.e. or a
CASSIN'S AUKLET but it was a RHINOCEROS AUKLET -- dark above and paling on
the breast. Please ignore the next message. It was not a WHISKERED AUKLET. It
was a RHINOCEROS AUKLET. Thank you.

May 18, 7:20 AM. Hi, this is Stephen Mlodinow. Regarding the next
message you'll hear from Keith Taylor, having discussed it with both Ken
Knittle, Greg Toffic and both of the Toochins, he was looking at a RHINO
AUKLET and it was not the bird that they were looking at. And, indeed, at the
time he was looking at it, the Toochins were not even there. They came up
later. But, in any case, the bird that Taylor saw that he thought was
definitely not a WHISKERED AUKLET was not the bird that the rest of them had
been looking at for some time and the others feel confident that they saw a
nonRHINO, nonCASSIN'S and, yes, WHISKERED AUKLET. So, I'll leave it at that.
Bye.

May 18, 10:51 PM. Jan Bragg (206) 524-3460. A pair of WHITE-HEADED
WOODPECKERS was seen Sunday afternoon, May 16, on Wenas Road in a
subcontinuous stand of Ponderosa Pine as one approaches the turnoff for the
Wenas Creek Campground from Ellensburg. PYGMY NUTHATCHS were at the same
stop. LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS were seen closer to the campground turnoff.

Wednesday, May 19, 12:43 PM. Hello, this is Joyce Meyer (sp.), (425)
881-5422. Today, at about 10 AM, I saw a bird that looked like a WHITE-WINGED
DOVE. It had red eyes, blue around the eyes and white edging along the folded
wing. It was perched on the top of a short fir tree near the bridge over the
Sammanish River on NE 116th Street that runs between Willows Road and
Avondale Road in the Redmond-Woodville area. I did not see the dove fly.
That's all.

May 19, 8:03 PM. Yeah, this is Mike Blue in Renton. My number is
(425) 255-9349. This morning about 7:30, I had at least 3 male WILSON'S
WARBLERS in downtown Seattle. This was on 8th Ave between Cherry and
Columbia. Got good looks at one and heard at least 2 others. Then tonight, in
my yard in Renton, I had at least 4 WESTERN TANAGERS, a WILSON'S WARBLER and
a YELLOW WARBLER. That's it.

Thursday, May 20, 7:34 AM. This is Craig Bower (?) (206) 729-5731.
Yesterday, at the Montlake Fill, I had a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at 6
PM. She was located west of the main pond. Good birding.

May 20, 1:32 PM. Hi, this is Neil Covendall (?) (206) 723-4444.
Yesterday, Wednesday, at the Kavota (?) Garden Park, where I work, there was
a big group of WARBLERS came through and among them was a lot of WARBLING
VIREOS, oh, I don't know, between 6 and a dozen, I guess and there were a lot
of other birds there. A lot of WARBLERS and the thing that was the most
remarkable to me was a CHIPPING SPARROW. Thank you. Good Bye.

Friday, May 21, 7:59 AM. Hi, Tom Aversa (206) 782-7342 reporting for
a trip to Ocean Shores yesterday. Pretty spectacular concentrations of COMMON
TERNS down around Ocean Shores. I estimated at least 800 birds. Also, at
least 9 PARASITIC JAEGERS chasing these TERNS around, really nice viewing
close off the Ocean Shores Jetty. I had at least 6 JAEGERS in view at one
time. Could be a lot more of them around there. Otherwise, the usual
shorebirds, nothing else of great note.

BIRDBOX last accessed 9:50 AM, May 21.