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Lani Johnson mailto:LaniSuzanne at aol.com

BirdBox was previously accessed Saturday, November 18th, 7:00 AM.

Saturday, 7:28 PM, November 18th. This is Barry Levine, 206-526-8676,
reporting on a trip to Eastern Washington with Martin Cooper. Birds of note
today were the NORTHERN HAWK OWL, at the location first reported by Marv
Brief and Ken Konnitle? Also, along Highway 395 was a NORTHERN PYGMY OWL,
located at the 200-Mile marker. A group of ten GREY PARTRIDGES were seen two
miles west of Cheney on the north side of Highway 904, and a probable
GYRFALCON was seen at Vantage on the southwest side of I-90. That?s it. Good
luck and good birding.

Monday, 6:25 AM, November 20th. This is Steve Hosmer at 425-889-2169,
reporting for yesterday, November 19th. The albino YELLOW-BILLED LOON was
seen yesterday afternoon between 1:30 and 2:30 PM in Commencement Bay in
Tacoma along Rustin Way. The bird was first spotted just east of the HARBOR
LIGHTS restaurant and it headed west past Shenanigans and ? restaurants.
That?s it.

Monday, 8:36 AM. Hi, this is Greg Toffic(206-684-4836).Yesterday, Sunday
morning, at the Snohomish sewer pond, I re-found the SWAMP SPARROW that Bob
Norton had reported from last week. It?s in a little triangular wet area at
the west end of the main pond. And then in the afternoon, I birded with my
wife, Sally, at the recreation area at the end of Eide Road in Stanwood, and
we found a female plummaged ORANGE BISHOP. A very interesting bird - quite
tame and undoubtedly, an escapee. Gave us really good looks. We were able to
watch it for about 15 or 20 minutes from as close as 12 or 15 feet, or so, in
very good light. Kind of an interesting bird. It?s hard to describe exactly
where it is, but at the end of Eide road there is a dike which is in a
u-shape, and across the open end of the "u" there is a hedgerow - it was in
that hedgerow. So you can either walk all the way around the dike and then
when you get to a point where you have to drop down to the inside of the
field, walk the hedgerow down. Kind of an interesting bird. Bye now.

Monday, 12:51 PM, November 20th. Hi, this is Jim Flynn at 253-941-3358. Over
the weekend, I led a field trip to San Juan Island for Rainier Audaban - lots
of good numbers of the normal birds, but (also) an unusual bird, a PALM
WARBLER at Cattle Point on Sunday, the 19th. And that bird was found just
about a hundred yards short of the parking lot at Cattle Point - there?s a
trail that goes to the lighthouse, and it goes past a grove of trees,
surrounding a residence there, and if you take that trail, about 50 feet, the
bird was foraging in the shrubs to the left and in the grass and weeds to the
right of the trail, and generally all throughout that area. That?s it. Good
luck and good birding.
Monday, 4:25 PM, November 20th. Hi ,this is Greg Toffic (206-684-4836). Today
at the Everett waterfront at Jetty Island at about 1:30, there was a SNOWY
OWL. I actually saw it from the navy base, but it was directly across the
river from the marina village and probably could be easily seen from
Anthony?s Restaurant or the walkway that?s there along the edge of the
river. Also, in Monroe, I saw, again, the light-phased HARLANS HAWK by the
Swiss Grange that Steve Mlodinow had reported a week ago or so. That?s along
Tualco Road. Good luck and good birding.

Birdbox last accessed Monday, 8:00 PM, November 20th.

Lani Johnson
Stanwood, WA
LaniSuzanne at aol.com