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Tuesday, March 20, 2:21 pm. Hello my name is Linda Teabee 206 935 2245.
I live at 3752 SW Grayson St. in W. Seattle, and since about December, almost
every day I've spotted what I'm pretty certain is an ALBINO JUNCO. It's here
almost every day in the early morning and late evening, in some bushes on the
west side of my property. It has a pure white head, pure white body, and light
gray wing bars.

Saturday, March 17, 6:36pm. Hi, this is Bruce Mlodinow. Yesterday, Friday,
Bruce LeVar, Ryan Shaw and I birded from Vancouver Lake up to Woodland Dike
Road. Highlights were all in the Woodland area, or pretty much south. They included
a number of birds feeding on smelt. The gull flock totaled about 11,000 birds. There
were no rarities although it was an impressive collection, mostly of HERRING GULLS
and MEW GULLS. In the river there was a SURF SCOTER, which is locally unusual.
In the fields nearby, in among a number of CACKLING GEESE, there was a BLACK
BRANDT. Also on the river there was there was AN INTERGRADE BETWEEN A
WESTERN AND CLARK'S GREBE. Down in the Vancouver Lake area in the first
flooded field you pass after going past the sewage ponds there was a HYBRID
EURASIAN AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Today Bill Twipe, Ryan Shaw
and I birded around parts of Thurston and Pierce Counties, and at the rendering
plant near the Goglie Hygee wetlands we had a first year GLAUCOUS GULL.
That's it, good luck and good birding. (Bruce, please give me the correct
spelling of this wetlands area; I couldn't find it in my references materials--rg.)