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Tuesday, May 15, 12:56 PM. This is Curtis Pearson, 206-722-9107. This
morning in the Kent Valley near Orillia Road were two SANDHILL CRANES. Go south
on I-5 to exit 152 and follow the signs to Orillia Road. Follow Orillia Road
south to South 204th and make a left turn. There will be a cemetery on your
right as you make the left turn. Go through the woods and wind your way
down onto the valley floor. When the road levels off there will be a field on
the right, or south side, and that is where the birds were grazing.

Sunday, May 20, 7:07 AM. Hello. This is Kraig Kemper, reporting for
Sunday, May 20th. In King County at the Boeing Pond, in the southeast corner, at
the end of 62nd Avenue South I located one WHITE-FACED IBIS in the shallow
retention pond there. Thanks you and good birding.

Sunday, May 20, 9:41 AM. Hello. This is Kraig Kemper, reporting for
Sunday, May 20th, birding in the Kent Valley early this morning. Wanted to clarify
my previous message in regards to the location of a WHITE-FACED IBIS. If
you were to take Orillia Road east from I-5, Orillia Road turns into South
212th Street. After crossing Frager Road take a left heading north on 59th Place
South, and as you drive around the pond to the east there is a blockaded
street called 62nd Avenue South. At the end of that, in a cul-de-sac, there is a
retention pond where the bird was seen early this morning. Thanks again.

Sunday, May 20, 9:21 PM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow. Today Brad Waggoner
and I spent most of the day getting soaked on the Olympic Peninsula. The
most unusual bird was the EURASIAN COLLARD DOVE. This was essentially at same
place the COMMON GRACKLE was. It used to be called the Oyster House I think
it is now called Dan Thunder's Landing Calky Park. You exit the park, make
the first left and a block or two down there, down that road, there may have
been actually more than 1 bird. At the Three Crabs access view onto Dungeness
Bay we had 5 RED KNOT, a LONG-BILLED CURLEW, and a PARASITIC JAEGAR. Near
Three Crabs, at what is now known as Helen's Pond, formerly the horse pond,
go past that there is another pond with muddy edges and there was a BANK
SWALLOW feeding over that. Good luck and good birding.

Tuesday, May 22, 10:32 AM. Hello, my name is Deb Heights. I am at
206-937-2686. I want to report a TENNESSEE WARBLER that I saw at my residence in
West Seattle. It was on Sunday, May 13 in the afternoon, and it was foraging in
my cherry tree. It hung around for 15 to 20 minutes so I had a really good
chance to make sure that it was what it was. Anyway, that's about it. OK.
Thank you.

Tuesday, May 22, 1:03 PM. Hi, this is Ryan Merrill. There was just a
LONG-EARED OWL down in Kent at the Kent Ponds. It was sitting on a metal pole
near the south tower. This is the tower were where the YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS
are singing nearby. When I left it had just dropped off the pole onto the
ground. That's all.

Wednesday, May 23, 5:00 PM. Hello. This is Greg Toffic reporting an EASTERN
KINGBIRD west of Snohomish along drake #9, which you can get to from
Phillips Road. This is the same location where EASTERN KINGBIRDS have bred over
the last two years. Good birding!

Friday, May 25, 11:24 AM. Good morning, this is Brad Waggoner,
206-384-6921, reporting from Point No Point this morning. Pretty interesting morning.
Had a BREWER'S SPARROW near the lighthouse parking lot and also west of the
lighthouse along the beach logs. Also while looking at the BREWER'S SPARROW
had a flyby, fly in, BANK SWALLOW and there four WESTERN KINGBIRDS in the area,
and one SCRUBJAY still continues with a few STELLER'S JAYS. So, quite
interesting. Thanks and good birding.

Sunday, May 27, 8:36 AM. Hi, this is Steven Mlodinow, with a belated report
for Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Jay Wiscott, Bob Flores and I birded
the Richfield Vancouver Lake area. We had three YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS at
scattered spots, which suggests to me that there is a small nesting population
in that area that has not yet been uncovered. Vancouver Lake had 10 CLARK'S
GREEBES along with some WESTRN GREEBES, a BLACK TERN and a FORSTER'S TERN.
Post Office Lake had another FORSTER'S TERN. At the River S Unit we had the
long staying male EURASIAN WIGEON swimming around with a girl AMERICAN WIGEON.
The WHITE-FRONTED GEESE are now off the floor, but we were unable to locate
a single WHITE-FACED IBIS. And I think that about covers it. Good luck and
good birding.


BirdBox last accessed Sunday, May 27, 11:38 AM.

Phil Kelley
Lacey, WA
scrubjay323 at aol.com
360-459-1499

" We were few and they were many. Now we are many and they are few"
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