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Forget the Snow!?? It?s YardBirdRecords that have been FALLING all over Western Washington as we head into the final slippery-slope that will end?the epic 2008 YardBirdRace.
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Falling records include the venerable Wahkiakum Co-overall, Anacortes, Auburn, Roy, PierceCo A, Hamilton, Shoreline, Green Lake, Hillman City, Licton Springs, Ballard, Seattle-R Seattle W Seattle overall,, West Seattle R.? Alki, Seattle W Seattle SkagitCo-overall, G and A, outlying Tacoma, Kitsap-W, Redmond-G, Licton Springs,? ?Skamokaway, Kirkland R, KingCo A, KingCo.- W, Kirkland overall& W, Kirkland-R, outlying Auburn, KingCo W, Residential overall, Overall and Point No Point. ?
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Is this beginning to sound like a school-closure list? ?
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To be specific.
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In Auburn, King Co. Acreage, SANDY DANIELS? & KEVIN STEINER are 3 over at 93, with PYGMY OWL & LAZULI BUNTING.? They also have unofficial records in the category of YARDBIRDFLEDGLINGS (33) AND YARDBIRDNESTERS (15).? Hooray for bird reproduction!
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The family of MERRILL PETERSON & CAROL YOON are setting a new record (currently at 69) in Bellingham with CASSIN?S VIREO and a notable 32 YardDayBirds.
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IDIE ULSH & WILSON CADY are the only ones in the YardMammalRace with 11 and 5 respectively.? Ulsh will set a new Mason Co record with 66, Cady needed 1 in Skamania in October to tie his own record there of? 88 there in A.
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RYAN MERRILL is making Kirkland look like a port on the Puget Sound as he has racked up an amazing group of ?seabirds? including RED-NECKED PHALAROPE in the course of amassing 107 in KingCo W.? Merrill also has NIGHTHAWK, BARN OWL, AMERICAN PIPIT, and ?MARSH WREN to pick a few to name.
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98 is guaranteed for the new PierceCo. A? record as DENIS DESILVIS in Roy has added 8 go-ahead-birds including a COMMON REDPOLL in Roy.?
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The Hillman City record will fall despite the fact that only a week ago BOBBY & CURT PEARSON were sitting at 47, a longshot 2 birds away from the record. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD tied it and PURPLE FINCH was the go-ahead, #50.
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And in the numerous and arresting categories of Overall, Waterfront yard-type, Point No Point, Kitsap-W and KitsapCo-overall the record will fall again as VIC NELSON is reporting in from Point No Point with 158 including YELLOW-BILLED LOON, ARCTIC LOON, LEACH?S STORM-PETREL, GYRFALCON, LITTLE GULL, LAUGHING GULL & SWAINSON?S HAWK.
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Meanwhile Skagit overall and A will top the C-mark as SAY?S PHOEBEE, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD & NORTHERN PYGMY-OWL? have helped GARY BLETSCH? to 103? in Hamilton.
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To the continuing surprise of this Seattleite it took a non-native weaver, a HOUSE SPARROW that blew in with the snow storm, to put ANDREW EMLEN, the originator of the Acreage yard-category, one up in Wahkiakum County?s Skamokaway with 85.
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In Licton Springs, JOSH HAYES has pushed the total into record territory at 41 with recent RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER & SNOW GOOSE sightings.
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SNOW & CACKLING GEESE have helped GRACE & OLLIE OLIVER to three over at 61 in Redmond G.
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In the midst of falling Seattle overall (Benevente/Flynn)? Ballard (Hoskin), and Seattle working yard (Rose) records, don?t forget Seattle Waterfront, which GARY SMITH? is set to obliterate with 76 from Alki? before the auld-lang-syne- time.? Smith has both BROWN PELICAN & MOURNING DOVE there's an odd couple for Seattle!
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Meanwhile, CAROLYN EAGAN still needs only one to tie in Jeffco, and only ?2 to reach 100.? MARGARET & JOHN GREEN will set a new record in Longview, GUY MCWETHY could use 3 as of last report,? CATHERIN ALEXANDER? could use four as of last report, DON & SANDY MCVAY 6, ANNE MUSCHE and ALAN RICHARDS 11 in Naselle, TAYLER BROOKS 10 in Brier?and there?s more news on the Leaderboard at
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? http://ednewbold.com/ybr_leaderboard.html
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YardBirdRace has donated $1000 to help save the Stresseman?s Bristlefront, a Tapaculo, related to the antbirds, from the Brazilian Amazon, to the American Bird Conservancy.
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The address of that campaign if anyone wants to make their own donation is:
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George Fenwick
American Bird Conservancy
P.O. Box 249
The Plains, Virginia 20198
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Thanks to record-breaking sales at the Pike Place Market this Christmas season
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http://ednewbold.com/sightings.html
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(or was that 2006?)? YardBirdRace will donate $400 more in the name of ?4 other participants if anyone wants to go that route.? Other prizes will hopefully include Violet-green Swallow nest- boxes (does anyone know the name of the company that makes the Seattle Audubons? boxes?) Kaufman guides, some memberships in WOS, etc.
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The race is still on until Dec. 31 midnight 2008 and entries (2008 yard year list and location) can be emailed to yardbirdrace at yahoo.com
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This is the last YardBirdRace report for 2008.
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Ed Newbold residential Beacon Hill, Seattle yardbirdrace at yahoo.com
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