Subject: Northern Bobwhites
Date: Jun 17 19:17:34 2002
From: Stan Kostka - lynnandstan at earthlink.net


A couple summers ago I observed a pair of Northern Bobwhites working the
edge of the garden and field at the end of my yard, at about 500 feet
elevation, roughly twenty miles east of Stanwood in Snohomish county.
Although I did not photograph them, Im certain they were bobwhites. They
acted quite tame and allowed me to approach them quite close before they
leisurely took to the nearby brush. (I've seen them in captivity when I
lived in Pennsylvania.) I assumed these were escapees although I do not
know who locally was raising them.

Stan Kostka
lynnandstan at earthlink.net
Arlington WA

original message:Subject: Rare Bird Alert - Northern Bobwhite - N.
Washington state
From: Mya Bell <myabell at 4-sightmedia.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 22:33:53 -0700

Bird:
Northern Bobwhite - male

Location:
Approx. 48.74 degrees latitude, -122.495 longitude (estimated from
Internet maps). That's about 1.4 hours 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