Adam,

I believe there is just one previous report for King County and very, very few for anywhere west of the Cascades.

Gene Hunn.

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Sedgley
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:01 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Common Poorwill at Montlake Fill


Scott Hoskin, Lann Kittleson, Andrew Thurber and myself had our Big Day for Seattle Audubon Birdathon on Saturday, May 20th. Our last species of the day was our biggest surprise: a Common Poorwill at Montlake Fill at 12:30am Sunday morning. It is my understanding that there are only a handful of sightings for King County.

It was resting on the stretch of gravel trail due east of the main pond. It's reddish/orange eyeshine is what attracted us to the bird. The short, squat appearance of the bird immediately gave me the impression of Common Poorwill. We were able to look at the bird with binoculars as it was illuminated by two dim flashlights from 10-15 ft. This ID was supported personally with prolonged views of the darkly demarcated tertials and buffy tips to the tail feathers. White wing bars were not visible. It did not sing. It flushed after several minutes and did not return to the immediate area in the next fifteen minutes so we took off (hey, we had been up for nearly 24 hours).

Hope someone else sees or hears this bird.

Cheers,
Adam Sedgley


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