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Please contact me, Grant Hendrickson, by phone (425-558-4008) or e-mail
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December 1, 11:27 AM - This is Dennis Duffy. There is a EURASIAN
GREEN-WINGED TEAL in the Edmonds Marsh. This is the third consecutive winter
that one has been present there.

December 3, 7:48 PM - Hi, this is Steve Mlodinow. Dennis Duffy and I spent
this weekend birding the Olympic Peninsula. The rarest bird of the weekend
was a YELLOW WARBLER in the town of Neah Bay. It flew across the road and
then foraged among the pipes at the Neah Bay Petroleum Company, or maybe it
was the Neah Bay Gas Company. It was a gas station. At Cape Flattery this
morning we spent about an hour and a half and had at least a hundred
FULMARS. There may have been several times that many actually, but at least
ten were in view at all times. Sometimes as many as sixty. We also had two
SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATERS and 300+ BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES. The other bird of
interest today was an EARED GREBE at Neah Bay itself. Yesterday we had two
SNOWY OWLS at Dungeness Spit and two ANCIENT MURRELETS along with 30-40
MARBLED MURRELETS at John Wayne Marina. At Port Townsend at Point Wilson we
had five more ANCIENT MURRELETS and then at the Hood Canal crossing near
Port Orchard we had 110 MARBLED MURRELETS. That's it. Good luck and good
birding.

December 4, 9:41 AM - Hi, this is Kate Stenberg with the King County
Wildlife Program. My phone number is (206) 296-7266. Last Friday morning a
citizen took me out to the Snoqualmie Mill Pond, which is located just above
the Snoqualmie Falls just off the highway that goes past the falls and on to
Mill Pond Road and that goes between the Snoqualmie River and the mill
pond. The swans were between the road and the island in the middle of the
pond. There were three of them, two adults and a juvenile. I've asked around
a bit and I'm told that TRUMPETER SWANS are quite rare in King County, so I
thought I would report it here. The citizen who took me there told me they
had been there for about three weeks, so they may be there still. They were
just foraging along very happily along the edge of the island. Thank you.


Grant Hendrickson
Redmond, WA
granth at halcyon.com