Bird:
Northern Bobwhite - male

Location:
Approx. 48.74 degrees latitude, -122.495 longitude (estimated from
Internet maps). That's about 1.4 miles north of Seattle, .7 miles east
of I-5 and about .3 miles south of Lakeway Dr. in tree in a brushy
undeveloped pair of lots in a treed residential district.

Date:
16 June 2002, the bird's distinctive whistle was heard intermittently
from 5:40 am to 7:00 am. I located it and photographed it from about
6:30 am to about 6:50 am. I listened for it the rest of the day, but
didn't hear it call again.

Frequency in this area:
I was unable to find any known records (so far) of this bird ever having
been sited in this area. The closest bobwhites I'm aware of are in a
small pocket at the south of Puget Sound a couple of hundred miles away.
Since this bird doesn't fly very well, it's unlikely that it strayed in
any typical way.

Mya Bell, Bellingham <myabell at 4-sightmedia.com>