Subject: Lazuli Bunting on Orcas Island
Date: Jun 1 10:14:15 2001
From: Russell Rogers - rrogers at halcyon.com


Hello Tweeters,

There is at least one other record of Lazuli Bunting from the San Juan
Islands. There was one report from San Juan Island on 1 June 2000 (a year
ago today). I do not have the most up todate dataset here at the office,
so there may be other records as well. If I come across any I will let the
list know.

Russell

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Russell Rogers
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Point Whitney Shellfish Laboratory
1000 Point Whitney Road
Brinnon WA 98320
(360) 586-1498 ex 221
rogerrer at dfw.wa.gov
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Scott Atkinson wrote:

> Wayne:
>
> I believe Gayle's is at least the second Lazuli Bunting for San Juan County,
> but Russell's input might unearth a record or two more.
>
> I recall at least one other record for San Juan County, also a late spring
> bird and from Orcas, I believe a window-kill long ago near the town of Olga.
> The record is listed, I believe, in Lewis' and Sharpe's Birding in the San
> Juan Islands book.
>
> By contrast, the species can be fairly common locally in the
> Concrete-to-Marblemount corridor of central Skagit County, and occurs
> eastward to as far as the Mt. Hardy burn. West of Concrete it shows up much
> less commonly in May-June to as far west as the Mt. Vernon area, but I don't
> recall any Fidalgo I or Guemes I records, coming close to the east edge of
> San Juan County.
>
> Scott Atkinson
> Lake Stevens
> email: scottratkinson at hotmail.com
>
>
> >From: "WAYNE WEBER" <contopus at home.com>
> >Reply-To: contopus at home.com
> >To: "GAYLE BENTON" <gbenton at rockisland.com>, "TWEETERS"
> ><tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Lazuli Bunting on Orcas Island
> >Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:55:53 -0700
> >
> >Gayle and Tweeters,
> >
> >A Lazuli Bunting on Orcas Island is indeed an unusual sighting. I'm
> >sure there are some previous records for the San Juan Islands (Russell
> >Rogers or others, do you have details?), but I expect there are few.
> >They breed in very small numbers on the adjacent mainland (Whatcom and
> >Skagit Counties), but more in the eastern parts of those counties.
> >Although San Juan County got pretty good coverage during the
> >Washington Breeding Bird Atlas Project, 1987 to 1996, no Lazuli
> >Buntings were reported as even possible breeders during that period in
> >San Juan County (Breeding Birds of Washington State, by Smith,
> >Mattocks, & Cassidy, 1997).
> >
> >Please keep tabs on this bird, Gayle, and lets us know if it stays
> >around and maintains a territory, or if it disappears after a day or
> >two.
> >
> >Wayne C. Weber
> >Kamloops and Delta, BC
> >contopus at home.com
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Gayle Benton <gbenton at rockisland.com>
> >To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> >Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:58 PM
> >Subject: Re: Lazuli Bunting
> >
> >
> > > Hi Tweeters,
> > > Have been reading of all the sightings of Lazuli's with interest -
> >they have
> > > always been one of my favorite birds. Went out in the yard this am
> >and
> > > heard this song - very different from the usual cacophony. I
> >thought, it
> > > can't be!! But it was. A beautiful male singing his heart out and
> >coming
> > > momentarily to an area below a seed feeder in my yard. This is very
> > > exciting because I am on Orcas Island and I think this is a very
> >unusual
> > > sighting. In fact, I think I need to report it. I have feeders
> >out, a
> > > small bathing pond, and so my yard really attracts birds. I must
> >have 50 to
> > > 100 Siskins around with Evening Grosbeaks,Crossbills and everything
> >else
> > > that prefers this habitat so there is alot of bird 'noise'. I'm
> >sure that
> > > is what brought this Lazuli in. Anyway, would someone kindly send
> >me the
> > > name of the person that I need to report this to? Thank you.
> > > Gayle Benton
> > > Eastsound, WA
> > > gbenton at rockisland.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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