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

Mailbox previously checked on Tuesday, January 19, 2000, at 2:20 p.m. by
Franny Drobny.

January 20, 2000, Thursday, 4:05 p.m. This is Bob Morse reporting that the
ICELAND GULL was again seen this afternoon as late as 4:00 o'clock. At that
time it was at the end of the river, down behind the Simpson plant at the
point.

January 20, 2000, Thursday, 9:56 p.m. Uh, this is Lee Barnes, and I was on
a Audubon field trip on Saturday the 15th of January, and at, in Port
Townsend at Wilson's Lighthouse we had a several flocks of ANCIENT MURRELETS
feeding in an ebb tide rip about, oh, 200 yards offshore. Um, that is all.
Thank you.

January 21, 2000, Friday, 12:03 p.m. Hello, this Mike Wyle, (425) 503-5766.
Birding in the Carnation area, at the entrance to the Carnation Golf Course,
there is a row of birch trees that line the road. In those birch trees
today, there is a flock of, oh about, 30 COMMON REDPOLLS, an interesting
sighting for the area. Thank you and good birding.

January 22, 2000, Saturday, 9:18 p.m. This is Rick Sanders, (206) 567-4144.
Today John Friars and I led a field trip out to the Sequim-Dungeness area.
At the mouth of the Elwah River, we saw a first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL. It
looked to have a bit of HERRING GULL in it, but it was mainly a GLAUCOUS,
and at Ediz Hook we also saw 2 ROCK SANDPIPERS. That's all for now.

January 23, 2000, Sunday, 6:03 a.m. Hello, this is Kraig Kemper, (206)
789-9255, reporting on a WOS field trip, Saturday, January 22, for the
Skagit and Samish flats. Of the 75 species observed yesterday, the
highlight was clearly a five FALCON day for all the participants. The
GYRFALCON was located both in the morning and in the afternoon on a
telephone pole on Sunset between Farm to Market Road and Thomas. One
PEREGRINE FALCON was observed on Chuckanut north of the town of Bow, the
PRAIRIE FALCON was located southeast of the East 90 on a fence post in a
field. Both a female and male AMERICAN KESTREL were located at the west end
of D'Arcy Road near the intersection with Bayview-Edison Road, and a MERLIN
was seen on the south side of Field Road between Farm to Market Road and
Church Road. Other highlights included six adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON
at the traditional Fir Island roost, and a flock of 35 AMERICAN PIPIT also
in a field on Fir Island. One NORTHERN SHRIKE at the East 90, an EURASIAN
WIGEON south of Sunset in a mixed flock, and 7 SHORT-EARED OWL at the West
90. Thank you.

January 23, 2000, Sunday, 7:19 a.m. Hello, this is Kraig Kemper, (206)
789-9255, reporting for Sunday, January 23rd. At 7:00 o'clock a.m. this
morning I relocated the ICELAND GULL which is in the parking lot feeding
along side some CANADA GEESE. Thank you.

January 23, 2000, Sunday, 8:03 a.m. Hello, this is Dave Beaudette at (206)
365-2083. This report is for January 22nd and the Edmonds waterfront area.
Just west of the Deer Creek hatchery, in a field southwest of Pine Street
and Nootka Road, that's N-O-O-T-K-A, was a male ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD and one
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, and at the Edmonds marsh was one male EURASIAN
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, and along Sunset Avenue which is just above the Edmonds
waterfront was one adult HEERMANN'S GULL feeding on hand-outs with a bunch
of other GULLS not too far northeast of the Edmonds ferry terminal and
Brackett's Landing park. Good birding.

January 23, 2000, Sunday, 6:05 p.m. This is Allen Grennan (sp.?) (206)
329-6005. This evening just west of the arboretum in Seattle, the soccer
field region in the neighborhood is just west of there, was a SCRUB JAY. So
at least one of the little group of WESTERN SCRUB JAYS is persisting in that
area and a pair of BALD EAGLES is building a nest amazingly close to the
trail on Foster Island. I hope they don't get too disturbed.

Transcription completed on Wednesday, January 24, 2000, at 4:05 p.m. by
Franny Drobny.






















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