Mike Fleming and I saw a calling Northern Bobwhite at Weir Prairie at 7am
this morning. From the site described in Opperman on page 207 (Lower Weir
Prairie), go about 0.5mi north on Rainier Rd. and then turn right onto the
next prairie. Park your car after just about 0.2mi, then walk left on a
grassy road towards the trees. The bird was at the base of the first tree on
your right. Note that you will need a Ft. Lewis access permit to bird at
this site. Thanks to Jason Paulios for the tip.

Next, we drove to the Capital State Forest SW of Olympia. After gaining
significant elevation (2000ft+) on roads that start with "B-", we made two
stops along B-8500 and had (pure) Hermit Warblers on both. It seems like
that the numbering of the lines on Opperman's map has changed and the roads
that we took roughly correspond to C-4000 on page 217.

We then made our way to Ocean Shores. At the Brown Point Jetty we had 6
(fading breeding plumaged) Surfbirds just before we ran into Ruth and
Patrick Sullivan who gave us a superb tour of the local hotspots.

Stefan Schlick
Bellevue, WA