I saw a male Northern Bobwhite in Commodore Park in Seattle about two years
ago, this was about 1/4 mile from Discovery Park. It was my guess at the
time that he wandered over from there. I had a perfect view, in the west
end of the park there are two side by side sidewalks, one about five feet
higher than the other. I was on the lower sidewalk and he was on the upper,
head high, just a few feet away. It was my impression at the time that they
were all accidental or introduced...

Cliff Drake
Seattle WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net



At 11:14 AM 6/17/2002 -0700, Mya Bell wrote:
>Mya Bell previously wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>Two adjustments to the above Northern Bobwhite report I posted yesterday. I
>meant to write 1.4 "hours" north of Seattle. Sorry for the confusion this
>may have caused. I also have a very slight adjustment to the latitude and
>longitude (I found a site that makes it a little easier to estimate):
>
>48.7427 latitude and 122.45 longitude about 10 feet up in a fir tree.
>
>Unfortunately, I haven't heard any more calls from the little guy, or
>perhaps fortunately--maybe he made his way to higher, brushier ground; it's
>pretty residential here with lots of domestic critters prowling at ground
>level.
>
>I also saw a young buck in a neighbor's yard this morning (maybe a
>three-pointer?).
>
>Mya Bell

Cliff Drake
Seattle WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net