Hil Kelly and Tweeters,

I have around 30 or so records in my database (mostly for records
between 1992-2001). There are no doubt many more records of this species
than my database would indicate. The records that I have fall neatly
between August and April (no May June July records at all) and are from
lowland sites (such as Nisqually). Nearly all western WA counties have a
record. I would sum it up by saying that they are annual in Western
Washington low lands in fall, winter and spring with between 1 and 8
observations a year.

Happy New year,

Russell

Kelly Mcallister wrote:

>Are Says Phoebe's seen in western Washington very frequently? There's probably
>someone out there with the definitive database (Russell Rogers?) to answer
>that question.
>
>I looked in the Wildlife Observation card file at Washington Department of
>Fish and Wildlife. This card file is a relict from the late 70s & early 80s,
>an era when a federal program called "Young Adult Conservation Corps" gave
>me a minimum wage job building the clearinghouse of information on Washington's
>nongame wildlife. Several years later the program was terminated... but not
>before some 100,000 plus observations of wildlife had been carefully transcribed
>from the accession logs of museums, Audubon Chapter Newsletters, and a variety
>of other sources, including virtually all of the early issues of the Journal
>known as "The Murrelet". Anyway, I found very few western Washington Says Phoebe
>observations in this file (which makes me all the more excited about seeing
>one on the Olympia CBC on December 14th, a sighting shared by Gary Wiles).
>I only found 4 other western Washington records (I'm sure some digging would
>uncover many more):
>
>September 27, 1977 - 3 miles south of Luhr Beach, Nisqually (Dave Hayward)
>March 21, 1980 - McAllister Creek side of Nisqually NWR (Evelyn Peasley)
>September 8, 1980 - edge of Ocean Shores Game Range (Swink, Nasseth, E. Hunn)
>March 1, 1989 - east side of Budd Inlet, DNR Marine Station (K. McAllister)
>
>So, I'm proud to announce that, out of the five sightings I was able to find,
>I'm responsible for 2 of them. Three of the five sightings (including this
>year's Christmas Bird Count sighting) were from the same vicinity in the Nisqually
>valley bottom.
>
>O.K., now please flood me with additional western Washington sightings so that
>everything I thought was special about my little research effort becomes moot.
>
>Kelly McAllister
>Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
>Olympia, Washington
>Reply to: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov
>
>
>

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