Subject: WOS Birdbox Report 3-25-01
Date: Mar 25 09:19:11 2001
From: cametobe at ix.netcom.com - cametobe at ix.netcom.com


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Due to excessive errors, I am reposting the following report:

Saturday, March 17, 6:36pm. Hi, this is Steve Mlodinow. Yesterday, Friday,
Bruce LaBar, 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 BRANT. 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 Tweit, Ryan Shaw and I birded around parts of
Thurston and Pierce Counties, and at the rendering plant near the Gog-Le-Hi-Te
wetlands we had a first year GLAUCOUS GULL. That's it, good luck and good birding.

Here are the new reports:

Tuesday, 3/20 10:18 pm. This is Sam Terry, 206-329-9038. Today in Seattle
at the Madrona swimming beach on Lake Washington, there was one first winter
GLAUCOUS GULL. Further south on the beach at the Stan Sayres pits there
were 2-3 EARED GREBES. The EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL and the
PALM WARBLER were both at the Montlake Fill today. Good luck and good birding.

Thursday, 3/22, 10:07 am Hello, this is Susan Schmoll, 425-333-4313, and I live
at 7110- 310th Ave NE, Carnation, in the Snoqualmie Valley. This morning I saw
a SANDHILL CRANE that I wanted to report. I didn't know if you'd seen SANDHILL
CRANES out in the Snoqualmie Valley. A couple of years ago I saw a pair; today
I saw one.