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I will try to post a transcript each Friday and Monday. Please address corrections (such as errors in place names or observers) to Bob Norton, norton36 at olypen.com, (360) 928-3053.

Saturday, 5:36 PM, October 7. Hi this is Dave Brodeur. I'm at (206) 527-2197. At Discovery Park in Seattle today at South Beach there was an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER hanging out with a flock of SANDERLINGS. There were about 80 SANDERLINGS and one plover. The plover was on the beach at about 3:10. It was high tide.

Sunday, 7:41 AM, October 8. This is Vic Nelson. Yesterday morning at Point No Point at the northeast tip of the Kitsap Peninsula, I saw a first winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE in with 7 or 800 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. There were also one or two hundred COMMON TERNS in the area and 8 or 10 PARASITIC JAEGERS. Good bye.

Monday, 2:22 PM, October 9. Stan Nelson, (206) 782-0793. I happened to run into 5 green PARROTs that were in a yard in Greenwood that were next to the Fred Meyer's there and I watched them for awhile and the CROWs were after them and then they took off. I was told that the name of the bird was combres and I talked to the woman there that owns the yard. She said there was nobody around there that owned any parrots. So they have to be on their own. Thank you.

BIRDBOX last accessed about 7 PM, Monday October 9, 2000.

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