This question keeps coming up, and I'm going to ask again if anyone remembers a particularly fine spot for seeing Mtn Quail on the Kitsap Peninsula. The site is a private home and yard that's designated a wildlife preserve, and the owners have been very hospitable to birders--at least, they were several years ago when I was there last. I'm quite sure you take Hwy. 3 north and then at some point you turn off on a side road going west. It goes up and down the hills, and finally you can turn left into the property. They have cans of feed out, and you can spread some on the ground, sit back and wait patiently until the quail appear, along with a host of other birds. Please, does anyone remember this place or at least the names of the owners? Or can you think of a strategy to find them? (I just looked briefly at the Kitsap Co. website where you look at maps and properties, but I wasn't able to find the place.)

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503

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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu on behalf of SGMlod at aol.com
Sent: Sat 7/2/2005 6:57 PM
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Mountain Quail


Greetings All

A colleague from PA is coming out in a week or two and would like to see Mtn Quail. Any suggestion for finding them in July??

Please post responses to Tweeters.

Thanks
Steven Mlodinow
Everett WA