Subject: Philadelphia Vireo Sighting
Date: Jun 10 11:42:05 2002
From: Paul Webster - paul.webster at attbi.com


Hi Tweets,

Sorry I missed the WOS Bird Box posting. For others who missed it I'm
including it as follows:

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.webster at attbi.com

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.