HI All:
Could the Ringed Turtle-Dove be an Eurasian Collared-Dove?

Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
"Rallidae all the way"

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 SCRBJAY at aol.com wrote:

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> Saturday, July 1, 4:19 PM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today, Dennis Duffey
> & I went out to Whidbey Island. It was actually fairly slow, but there were a
> few shorebirds around. On the shores of Useless Bay we had about 10 GREATER
> YELLOWLEGS, and a few peeps, including 1 SEMI-PALMATED SAMDPIPER. At Crockett
> Lake there were still 8 AMERICAN AVOCETS, a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, a couple
> of LEAST SANDPIPERS, a number of WESTERN SANDPIPERS totaling about 50, and 2
> LESSER YELLOWLEGS. At Swantown Pond there was 1 LONG BILLED DOWITCHER and a
> number of WESTERN SANDPIPERS. From Ft. Casey State Park a very large number
> of RHINO AUKLETS totaling 4500 were seen over 15 minutes or so and there were
> also quite a number of HEERMANN'S GULLS there at that time as well. We saw
> HEERMANN'S GULLS at several locations on the west side of Whidbey, too. It's
> starting to rain so we're going to head for the east side, Good luck and good
> birding.
>
> Saturday, July 1, 8:51 PM. This is Rachel Lawson at (206) 282-5593. This is
> an update on the OVENBIRD at the Packwood location. The bird was still there
> this morning, July 1, but was not very vocal or very easy to see. That's all.
> Good luck and good birding.
>
> Saturday, July 1, 9:52 PM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. There was one
> sighting I left off. We had 4 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS northwest of Silvana.
> Go north from Silvana, then go west on Norman Road to 28th, also known as
> Stubbs Road. Turn north on that. There is a flooded farm field on the left
> and there were about 150 PEEPS there including 4 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS.
> That's it, good luck and good birding.
>
> Monday, July 3, 10:16 AM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Yesterday Dennis
> Duffey, Casey Beechum and I birded Grant County mostly. Highlights included 3
> adult FRANKLIN'S GULLS and a couple of BONAPARTE'S GULLS in a flooded field
> near the town of Wilson Creek itself. This is along the highway there, just
> by milepost 71. Also on the shores of that flooded field was a male
> TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD, presumably from the nearby breeding colony. At the
> colony itself we missed TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS, but that was likely due to
> going there in the early afternoon when things are pretty quiet. At Lake
> Lenore there were 2 adult FRANKLIN'S GULLS, 77 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, quite a
> number of other birds. At Alkali Lake, just north of Lake Lenore, we had a
> pair of RED-NECKED GREBES with young. And in Othello we had a GREATER SCAUP
> and that is about it. Good luck and good birding.
>
> Tuesday, July 4, 1:17 PM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today on Homemakers
> Road on Ebey Island, near Everett, there is a pond south of US 2. There was a
> SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, 110 or so LEAST SANDPIPERS, and a couple of WESTERN
> SANDPIPERS, along with a brood of BLUE-WINGED TEAL today. Also at the county
> property at the very north tip of Ebey Island, there were 2 pairs of EASTERN
> KINGBIRDS and overhead a male PURPLE MARTIN. Good luck and good birding
>
> Tuesday, July 4, 6:41 PM. This is Marv Breece, (206) 634-1725. This morning,
> the 4th of July, from 6:15 to 6:45 AM I heard and saw a singing male
> BLACK-THROATED SPARROW on Huntzinger Road .7 miles south of the state park.
> This is south of Vantage. Also this morning, on the 4th of July, from 8:30 to
> 9:15 AM, I heard and saw another male BLACK-THROATED SPARROW. This was just
> north of Vantage on Recreation Drive. It was .3 to .5 miles in on Recreation
> Drive. It was a very active bird, flying back and forth across the road, a
> lot easier to find than the previous one. That's it, good luck and good
> birding.
>
> Thursday, July 6, 4:12 PM. Hello, this is Steve Pink, phone number (425)
> 649-0601, with a belated report for a trip to Eastern Washington last
> weekend. I went with Jim Fremwith (?). On Saturday, July the first, we found
> a BLACK-THROATED SPARROW at a slightly different location. At Vantage, on the
> Huntzinger Road, you go just past the Wanapum Dam, down the steep hill, there
> is a track to the right. Then you go down there for about .2 mile and the
> bird was singing in that area. On Sunday, the second of July, there was a
> GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE at Mission Ridge in the Blue Mountains, one of its
> traditional sites. On the 4th of July we saw a single ACORN WOODPECKER in the
> tree near Chamberlain Lake near Lyle in Klickitat County. That was the
> highlights. Good luck and good birding.
>
> Thursday, July 6, 4:29 PM. Diane Ravenovich, (425) 836-0831. For the past 5
> days, in the morning and the evening, we've had a RINGED TURTLEDOVE feeding
> in
> our backyard sanctuary. He's either very far from home or he is a
> domesticated bird who has been turned loose. This was suggested by Audubon
> Society and I tend to agree with it. I'm still trying to identify whether or
> not the bird is banded.
>
> Last transcribed July 7, 7:04 AM.
>
> Phil Kelley
> Lacey, WA
> scrbjay at aol.com
> (360) 459-1499
>
> "We were few and they were plenty. Now we are plenty and they are few"
> Confucius
>