The Washington BirdBox is a voice mailbox sponsored by the Washington
Ornithological Society. To leave a message about a notable sighting, or to
listen to recent reports from other birders, call 425/454-2662 and follow
the
prompts. Report operational problems to Hal Opperman, system administrator
mailto:halop at accessone.com, phone: 425/635-0503. Please contact the
transcriber, Lani Johnson mailto:LaniSuzanne at aol.com if you have any
corrections such as errors in place names or observers.

Birdbox accessed previously on Wednesday, November 8.


Thursday, November 9, 9:41 PM. Hi, this is Tom Aversa reporting a trip
today
to Kittitas County with Steve Gerstall. A couple of unusual birds were on
that old Vantage Highway. We had an IMMATURE BALD EAGLE and then we had an
IMMATURE GYRFALCON and really good looks at the GYR. These birds were along
the Vantage Highway a little bit east of the Qualimine area, where the
corral
is.

Friday, November 10, 5:54 PM. This is Bill Shelmerdine from Olympia.
866-9106, and I birded Grays Harbor in Pacific County today and the best
bird
found was a TROPICAL KINGBIRD at the tip of Toke Point. There was also a
PALM WARBLER in the same area. Toke Point is a small gravel road just
opposite the corner of Emerson and Kindred Avenue. The KINGBIRD was in the
empty lot to the northwest and the PALM WARBLER was right on the road there.
The KINGBIRD spent most of its time, actually, in the yard of 3269 Kindred.
There was also a RED-HEAD at the Hoquim sewage pond and the AVOCET was still
with the MARBLED GODWIT and WILLETS at the Tokeland Marina. Good luck and
good birding.

Friday, November 10, 9:03 PM. Hello, this is Wayne Weaver phoning from Delta
B.C. Phone number: 604-597-7201. For those that might be interested in
traveling to the Vancouver area, there is a female TUFTED DUCK in the outer
pond at Iona Island, outside the sewage plant. It's been there fairly
regularly for the last two weeks or so. There was also a female OLDSQUAW in
the pond this afternoon and there were about 1500 SNOW GEESE on the
foreshore right next to the island. That's it for now.

Friday, November10, 9:37 PM. Hi this is Stephen Mlodinow. A couple bird
interests: Bill Bardley tells me that the RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was at Spencer
Island today. Terry Wahl tells me that a SNOWY OWL was found injured at
Blaine on November 7th and taken to rehab. Steve Pink, Dennis Duffey and I
went to the east side today and actually had relatively little -were a
little
bit surprised by a fair number of HERMIT THRUSHES in the ...wildlife
management area, nine of them in total. Also had a PACIFIC LOON at Alkali
Lake in Grant County and a PACIFIC LOON at Potholes Reservoir in Grant
County. That's it. Good luck and good birding.


Saturday, November 11, 10:35 AM. Bob Norton 360-928-3053. Yesterday,
November
10th, Judy Mullally and I saw and heard the RED-SHOULDERED HAWK on numerous
occasions in the late morning at Spencer Island. It was in the grove of
trees north of the barn previously mentioned, but also down by the barn on
two occasions, and it also flew down to the southwest of the island, as we
looked unsuccessfully for the SWAMP SPARROW which had been reported there.
There was also a TUNDRA SWAN north of the cross dike until we walked by.

Later, at the Snohomish Sewage Treatment Plant at the west end of the large
unfenced pond, we discovered an immature SWAMP SPARROW, which was in with a
flock of about 6 SONG SPARROWS and a LINCOLN SPARROW. This was life bird
for
Judy and made a most satisfactory excursion. There were also 110 HOODED
MERGANSERS in the pond. 90 % were female plumaged. Thank you.

Birdbox last accessed on Saturday, November 11th at 11:00 AM.

Lani Johnson
mailto: LaniSuzanne at aol.com


Bob Norton
Joyce (near Port Angeles), WA
norton36 at olypen.com