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Saturday, April 27, 8:06 PM - This is Jack Stevens (425 742 8721). Today
Marvin Cooper, Barry Levine, and myself birded through Skagit Game Range and
Whidbey Island. The bird of the day was an AMERICAN AVOCET at Crockett Lake
on Whidbey at the south end of the lake on a small island about midway
across. Good luck and good birding.

Saturday, April 27, 9:41 PM - This is Steven Mlodinov. Today Dennis Duffy,
Casey XXX, and I did the Stanwood, Skagit, Whidbey Island loop. The bird of
the day was a BLACK-NECKED STILT, apparently a female, at the Stanwood
sewage treatment ponds. We also had a WILSON'S PHALAROPE on Norman Road
which goes between Stanwood and Silvana. Good numbers of shorebirds around.
Lesser numbers of passerines. That's it. Good luck and good birding.

Sunday, April 28, 6:07 PM - This is Scott Atkinson (206-406 2306) with a
report from Fir Island and Skagit County. A very good day of birding up in
Skagit County. The highlight bird was a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in apparent
molt. The bird was seen from the Snow Goose preserve looking south out over
the flats, southeast right where the access ends at the south edge. There's
a road that goes up the dike and is then blocked by a new screen fence that
was built a couple of years ago. Look to the southeast out toward the
driftwood. The bird was seen out here in the driftwood hunting the area,
flying between low perches out in the marshy area.

Other good birds in the area. At the Skagit Wildlife Management headquarters
heard three AMERICAN BITTERNS at various points along the loop trail. A
single breeding plumage SEMI-PALMAATED SANDPIPER in with large numbers of
LEASTS and DUNLIN in small flooded fields near the outer loop trail. A
LESSER YELLOWLEGS with several GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the same general area,
and heard with Bob Koontz the first YELLOW WARBLER of the season on the
north side of the trail. At the Jensen Access, many shorebirds, mostly
DUNLIN and WESTERN SANDPIPER, but also a single PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER in
with some BLACKBELLIES. Also two arrival COMMON TERNS and three remaining
SNOW GEESE in the field adjacent. At the North Fork Access many more
shorebirds, mostly peeps, but also a PECTORAL SANDPIPER and a single GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. Then at the Wylie Road/Mann Road intersection a GREEN
HERON flyover. And then near the Skagit City farm pond along Moore Road,
about one mile west of the Skagit City farm pond, a small pond on the south
side of the road, two BLUE-WINGED TEAL and several CINNAMONS.