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report transcribed by Franny Drobny on Tuesday, September 12, 2000, at 2:12
p.m.

September 11, 2000, Monday, 4:01 p.m. Hi, this is Greg Toffic. Today I
birded a little bit in Skagit County and also in Snohomish County. At the
pond described by Scott Atkinson, the SOLITARY SANDPIPER was still present.
That's on Skagit City Road at the corner of Moore, at the north end of Fir
Island. I also looked for the SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER on the Samish Flats
and was unable to find that bird. In Snohomish County in the Everett sewage
ponds, there were a number of interesting birds. There were 2 GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE. There were 2 EARED GREBES and 1 HORNED GREBE. I
didn't find any shorebirds at all at the northeast corner in the good
shorebird habitat there, but at the little flat area in the cattail marsh
that's between the highway and the northern most pond, there were 5 SNIPE, 1
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, 4 LEAST SANDPIPERS, and 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. The
most interesting bird, though, at the ponds was a KEEP TEAL. This is not a
native species. It's an exotic from South Africa. It is not kept in
captivity very much. There aren't very many in zoos, but private
aviculturists fancy them. This is a very interesting little bird. It's
small and it's very pale with a pink bill. It stands out quite easily. It
can be separated from the SHOVELERS that it was mostly traveling with. Good
birding.

September 11, 2000, Monday, 9:57 p.m. Yeah, hi, this is Barry Lyon birding
with Bob Sundstrom on our Victor Emmanuel fall Washington tour. Let's see,
we had a, we saw the EMPEROR GOOSE at Lincoln Park in Port Angeles yesterday
in the afternoon around 5:00-5:30 p.m. The bird's in adult plumage and was
walking around with the other ducks and geese around the edge of the pond.
It's a beautiful bird. Today we had a male, we had a drake EURASIAN WIGEON
at the mouth of the Dungeness River. Thank you.

September 13, 2000, Wednesday, 8:12 p.m. This is Vic Nelson. Today at
Point-No-Point at the northeast tip of the Kitsap Peninsula I had an adult
LONG-TAILED JAEGER. There was also 5 or 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS and a couple
100 RED-NECK PHALAROPES are still in the area. There's also quite a few
COMMON TERNS and BONAPARTE'S GULLS and HEERMANN'S GULLS in the area.
Good-bye.

September 13, 2000, Wednesday, 8:15 p.m. Hi, this is Vic Nelson again. I
forgot to say the best time to look for the birds at Point-No-Point in the
next few days will be in the morning from, say, 8:00 or 9:00 o'clock until
noon or 1:00 o'clock. Good-bye.

September 15, 2000, Friday, 6:47 a.m. This is Bob Morris at (360) 943-8600,
reporting that a BROAD-WINGED HAWK was seen yesterday, 9/14, at 9:30 a.m. at
the Chelan Ridge hawk watch site north of the Town of Chelan.
Interestingly, a BROAD-WINGED HAWK was seen at the same date and time and
location last year. Another migrating BROAD-WINGED HAWK was seen at that
same site earlier this week on the 12th in the morning. Thank you.

September 15, 2000, Friday, 5:22 p.m. John O'Connell 299-4375. Around 1:00
p.m. at the Stanwood sewage ponds today, in addition to LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, notable birds were 1 PECTORAL
SANDPIPER, 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and a single PEREGRINE FALCON. Thanks.

September 16, 2000, Saturday, 9:40 p.m. Hello, this is Scott Atkinson.
Just wanted to report that last night on the 6:30 run of the
Kingston-Edmonds ferry, I had a first-year BROWN PELICAN just a little ways
past the halfway point on the Kitsap side of the run. The bird was
basically going westbound just in front of the bow of the vessel for a
couple of minutes before heading off in a southbound direction. Otherwise,
it's pretty quiet along the run. About 100 COMMON TERNS at Kingston Harbor.
That's all. Bye-bye.

September 16, 2000, Saturday, 11:46 p.m. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow.
Today Dennis Duffy and I birded portions of Skagit and Island Counties,
totaling 119 species. Highlights included a SOLITARY SANDPIPER at the
Skagit City Road and Moore Road on Fir Island. We also had 16 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS in a field along Beaver Marsh Road. There were good numbers of
passerines at the Skagit Game Range, but nothing of particular interest, and
there were good numbers of LOONS and GREBES moving on the west side of
Whidbey Island, but again nothing of particular interest. At Penn Cove
there were about 285 BLACK TURNSTONES, 50 SURFBIRDS and one RUDDY TURNSTONE.
At Sunlight Beach, which is near Deer Lagoon, there are some publicly
accessible points there, there was a SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. And that's
about it. Good luck and good birding.

This transcription completed by Franny Drobny on Monday, September 18, 2000,
at 3:39 p.m.






















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