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Friday, June 7, 2002, 1:07 p.m. Hi this is Dan Barton from Point Reyes
Bird Observatory, and I have a report for Lincoln County, Washington.
This morning, I was conducting point counts on Crab Creek and detected a
VIREO, and it turned out to be a PHILADELPHIA VIREO. The location of the
bird is -- if you have a Washington State Atlas and Gazetteer -- on Map
71, there's a road that goes north from Ritzville called the Marcellus
Road. It's a large gravel road, it also goes south from Downs, and this
is near the Lincoln-Adams County border. Along Crab Creek, it kind of
splits and comes back together a few times, and there's a south fork,
and it intersects the road about five miles south of Highway 28. From
the bridge where Marcellus Road goes over - and that area's also called
Rocky Ford Road - where that road crosses Crab Creek, go 500 meters east
on the north side of the road. The bird was singing from willows and
hawthorns in that area, and it's a nice one. I'm not sure how many state
records there are, but I don't think there's many. If anyone's in the
area and wants to get a shot at finding it, I'll be in this area as
well, so I can help, or I'd love to go back out there and look at it
again as well. My number is 415-497-0523. That's a cell phone. Good luck
finding it.

Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 10:21 p.m. Hi, this is Tom Aversa, reporting on
a trip to Eastern Washington. At Sprague Lake, there were five
breeding-plumage FRANKLIN'S GULLS and 15 BLACK TERNS and seven
BUFFLEHEADS. There was not a lot of land bird migrants. At various spots
around, I did find a RED-EYED VIREO at Lyon's Ferry though. There was
also a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS. I guess they've been nesting at
Palouse Falls. Great viewing of the pair working the canyon.

Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 10:51 a.m. This is Dennis Duffy. A few minutes
ago from my vantage point here on the 50th floor of the Key Tower, I
just had nine WHITE PELICANS circling out over the Seattle waterfront.
They were drifting northeastward with the wind.

Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 10:20 p.m. Hi, this is Bill Tweit. Yesterday,
Monday, June 3rd, I had a pair of COMMON GRACKLES in Ephrata at the
corner of 7the and D Streets. It's the residential part of Ephrata, and
the birds were primarily hanging around the large blue spruce in the
front yard one lot down from the corner. That was around 5:30 p.m.
yesterday. Good luck and good birding.

Monday, June 3rd, 2002, 10:12 a.m. Hi, this is Greg Toffic, and this
morning at the Everett waterfront, there ere two ARCTIC TERNS on Jetty
Island. I saw them from the boat launch area, but they were south of
that a little bit, probably directly opposite the marina village. They
were north of the, there's this very conspicuous sign saying "No Wake
Zone." Also there were two PURPLE MARTINS flying over Port Gardner Bay.
And yesterday, I saw the COMMON GRACKLE east of Yakima. It's still
there. And the BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER in Hardy Canyon. Also in Hardy
Canyon about 50 yards down the trail from the spot along the trail
that's marked by the two cairns of stones, was a nest of VESPER
SPARROWS. There are a lot of VESPER SPARROWS around there, and this pair
is nesting only about five feet off the road. There were four or five
little babies in there. So if you're looking for the GNATCATCHER in that
area, be careful that you don't disturb the VESPER SPARROW nest. Good
luck and good birding.

Birdbox last checked 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 8, 2002.


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Jane Hadley
Seattle, WA
jhadle at drizzle.com