Subject: Great-tailed Grackle in Samish Flats area
Date: Mar 10 08:09:40 2002
From: Paul Moorehead - pjm at sos.net


Thanks Denny,

I think the location of the observation is east of the intersection of SR
20 and Avon-Allen Road. The granary is probably the Draper Farms
facility on 20. Could be interesting. Now if we could only give this guy
a copy of the post on site/sight. :)


> recent grackle sighting. Soon after leaving the duck area and heading east on
> Route 20 from the Bayview Ave intersection to Rt I 5, I sighted a male
> Great-tailed Grackle. The bird was on the N side of the road in the area
> with the granary storage bins an estimated 1 to 2 miles east of the above
> mentioned intersection. It was sitting on top a 30 foot high pole.This is
> certainly an unusual sighting for the state and Skagit County. Being out of
> state I really have no way to disseminate the sighting other than to pass it
> on to you. (edited)



Paul Moorehead
Guemes WA