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Transcription:Sunday, May 28, 10:28 P.M. Hi, this is Stephen Mlodinow.
Yesterday and today, a number of us had 3 WHITE-FACED IBIS at the settling
ponds in Othello. Thats all and good birding.

Monday, May 29, 10:07 A.M. The following report is for Monday, May 29th, is
posted for Bob Norton. We were out at Cape Flattery today with Carol
Strohmeyer and Michael Farr. We were walking out to the observation platform
and were at the south facing observation deck just below the main platform.
Carol noted sandpipers on the rocks below. We were looking down on a flock
of 18 ROCK SANDPIPERS. When I say looking down, it was close to straight
down and while easy to see with binoculars it was extremely hard to get a
telescope trained on them. I could never get the Questar on them but we had
great looks at all but the bellies through Carol?s Bushnell. Arriving home
late last tonight and looking at Dennis Paulson?s ?Shorebirds of the Pacific
Northwest?, I see that this is 4 days later than his last record. He also
says we should be trying to tell which subspecies we were looking at. We
watched them for some time (about 1/2 hr) as they were life birds for Michael
and probably Carol. The legs of all that I saw were dull yellowish. The
bills of most, if not all showed a surprising amount of yellowish at the
base. This was a stumbling block for convincing the others that these were
ROCKS as the Field Guide with us was western Pete which shows none. Due to
our fixation on the bills, we saw the length of the bill as eliminating
SURFBIRD.
Other birds sighted of interest were 900 COMMON MURRES (a raft of 800 and a
raft of 100 plus smaller flying flocks) and 5 TUFTED PUFFINS.
Along the Waatch a VIRGINIA RAIL was calling and a GREEN HERONflew over and
perched briefly. At the Senior Center was one MARBLED GODWIT.

Monday, May 29, 12:59 P.M. Hi, this is Stephen Mlodinow. Today, at Spencer
Island, the EASTERN KINGBIRDS have returned. There were 2 birds along the
dike on the Eastside of the island toward the Northend; there were both on
the Spencer Island side and on the Ebby Island side across the slough. Also
where the cross dike hits the Westside of the island, there was a female
LAZULI BUNTING and along the Westside a MERLIN flew overhead. Thats all,
good birding.

Monday, May 29, 6:14 P.M. Hello, this is Kraig Kemper (206) 789-9255,
reporting for Sunday May 28th, and Monday May 29th. In Skagit County,
Sunday, Kathy Kemper and I located 1 adult male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD at
the Green Road Pond, just North of the Cook Road exit off I-5; and 1 SORA and
3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS at MP 76 in a pond to the South of State Route 20.
Located 2 adult male LAZULI BUNTING North on Powerline Road, reached by
Ranger Station Road from State Route 20 in Marble Mt.; and at Corkendale,
where the powerlines cross State Route 20, 12 BANK SWALLOWS and 1 EASTERN
KINGBIRD. On Martin Road, reached by traveling South on 570 across the
Skagit River from Rockport, we located 1 first Spring male LAZULI BUNTING.
On Monday, May 29th, I located a HOUSE WREN on Sharp Rd, reached by traveling
West on State Rt 20 toward Deception Pass, taking Campbell Lk road 1.5 miles,
taking a left onto Sharp Rd and traveling 1.4 miles. Thats it. ..





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Doug Watkins
Bainbridge Is, Wa
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