Mike and Tweeters,

Look in DeLorme, page 82, A 3, to the west of Sidney Hilll Road you
will see Port Orchard Airport. It is no longer active but there are a
series of buildings and an area where they fly radio-controlled model
airplanes. The best area appears to be along the fence to the west. You are
more likely to hear them than see them but with patience and a number of
visits you will see them. Green Mountain in Kitsap also has them but you are
very unllikely to see them there. Too much cover. Probably early morning and
late afternoon are the best bets.
> I was told that Mountain Quail can be seen near the Sequim airport.
> Can anyone give directions to the best area? Does this population
> "count?"
>
> I have never heard of any at this location. Are you sure you do
> not mean
> the old Port Orchard Airport? All of the Kitsap MoQu are countable as
> far as
> I know.

That is very likely to be correct. I seem to be inclined to remember
things in a spatial/visual way rather than an auditory mnemonic (i.e.
I'm even worse at bird calls than visual ID), so I probably formed a
mental picture of an elongate bay on the NW Olympic penninsula area,
then substituted the name of the the one I visit more often.

So, is there a semi-reliable place fro Mountain Quail in *Port
Orchard*? I'm not a county-lister, so it's all the same to me. I'd
just like to see the species before I get around to hatching some and
giving them the run of my house!

> To put it another way, since I have been collecting sightings
> for
> Jefferson and Clallam I have not gotten an even usually unreliable
> report for
> MoQu.

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