Subject: BIRDBOX TRANSCRIPTION, AUGUST 17-19
Date: Aug 20 10:53:06 2001
From: Grant Hendrickson - granth1 at mindspring.com


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August 18, 7:13 PM - This is Barry Levine (206) 526-8676 reporting on a trip
to Ptarmigan Ridge on Mt. Baker taken by Marvin Cooper of Seattle and
Dorothy Kopp and her friend Brian, both of Vancouver, B.C. and Glacier,
Washington. Three juvenile WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN were seen about one mile
along the Ptarmigan Ridge Trail. Birds were seen on both sides of the trail.
We put a rock cairn at a large boulder that is closest to the trail at that
point. You'll find this on the right hand side. We also marked PT on the
face of the rock, so hopefully this will make this area obvious to you. Good
luck and good birding.

August 19, 2:55 PM - Hello, this is Scott Atkinson reporting from coastal
Skagit County this morning, birding with Ann Linski(?), Patrick and Ruth
Sullivan, and Dave Hays. From the Jensen Access this morning in the plowed
field immediately adjacent to the access, 2 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS, and at
the access itself and nearby, 20 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 4 YELLOW-HEADED
BLACKBIRDS. Also here we had a TURKEY VULTURE. Out of the flats themselves,
1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER and 2 large SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS and a PEREGRIN. At
the Snow Goose Preserve just to the east 3 BANK SWALLOWS and a likely, heard
only, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. From the immediate vicinity of the Skagit Game
Range Headquarters one more YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD in a large flock of
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS. Along Wiley road immediately north of the entrance
had a trickle of passerine migrants beginning to be apparent at the loop
along the loop trail including an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, a WESTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, 2 HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHERS, and a couple of WILLOW FLYCATCHERS
among others. At the Skagit City Farm Pond 6 more PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, a
juvenile SOLITARY SANDPIPER and a female BLUE-WINGED TEAL. That's all.