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Reporter's name: Nancy Oyler
Sighting Description: Townsend's Warbler at our feeder
Location: Galbreath and Elsica
Confirmation: Frances Wood confirmed the photo
Date and time: Jan 13, 2020 12:30pm
Comment submitted Jan 15, 2020
Reporter's name: Darwin Wile
Sighting Description: A significant percentage of the world brant population is hanging out at Deer Lagoon today. Also both goldeneyes and all three scoters.
Location: Useless Bay, just outside Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 1/6/20; 2:15 pm
Comment submitted Jan 6, 2020
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: Large rafts of waterfowl at Crockett Lake (150-200). Mainly
comprised of Pintails and American Wigeons. Notable species include 11 Hooded
Mergansers and 11 Common Mergansers.
Location: Crockett Lake
Date and time: 1520, 26Dec19
Comment submitted Dec 26, 2019
Reporter's name: RUTH SCRIVNER
Sighting Description: counting 154 trumpeter swans floating by on the open water of
Dugualla bay
Location: Jones Road
Date and time: Dec. 25 2019
Comment submitted Dec 25, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline 
Sighting Description: Update to include photo of Bewicks Wren.
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 1320, 20Dec19
Photo Title: Bewicks Wren
Comment submitted Dec 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline 
Sighting Description: Update to include photo of Orange Crowned Warbler.
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 1300, 20Dec19
Photo Title: Orange Crowned Warbler
Comment submitted Dec 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: About 10 minutes after the Bewicks Wren left the suet feeder,
an adult orange crowned warbler showed up and stayed at the suet feeder for about 4
minutes. Warbler was noted to actively be eating suet. A feeder first for me!
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 1230, 20Dec19
Comment submitted Dec 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: Bewicks Wren visiting suet tree feeder on 3 occasions today.
Easy ID with bold white supercillium and gray belly. Seems to favor "Super Suet"
(contains insects)
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 1220, 20Dec19
Comment submitted Dec 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: 13 adult and 2 juvenile trumpeter swans foraging in old corn
maze field at Dugualla Farms.
Location: Dugualla Farms
Date and time: 14 December 2019, 1530
Photo Title: Trumpeter Swans
Comment submitted Dec 14, 2019
Reporter's name: Darwin C Wile
Sighting Description: trumpeter swan foraging among the multitude of ducks on the
salt water side of the west dike
Location: Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 12/9/19; 3:10pm
Comment submitted Dec 9, 2019
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Schedule changes: Remember to
check this space a few
hours before any
Whidbey Audubon Society event in
case weather or illness
cancels it. Consider
signing up to receive updates by
email but check here anyway in case
emails fail to transmit in time.
Birding in the Neighborhoods -
Weekly Field Trips
South Whidbey
The trips are every other Thursday
and the meeting time
varies with the season.
If you would like to be notified of
the events, contact
Cathi Bower  .
North Whidbey
The trips are on the 2nd Wednesday
of each month. If you
wish to be notified
of the events, contact Marcia Lazoff
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Wednesday, January 22: Field
Trip
Winter Birding Adventure at Deer
Lagoon
Come join Carlos Andersen to search
out the many birds present this time
of year.
Let's meet at 8:30 at the Bayview Park
and Ride where we can carpool to the
lagoon.
There are
no bathrooms at the lagoon so please
plan appropriately. Spotting scopes
are very
handy as many of the birds can be at a
good distance. So, if you have a
scope, please
bring it and we can all share. Limited
to 15 participants. To reserve a spot,
send an
email to Carlos at  .
Thursday, February 13: Meeting
PREVENTING WINDOW STRIKES BY BIRDS
Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
20103 State Route 525, two miles north
of
Freeland
The public is welcome to this free
program.
Doors open at 7 p.m. for socializing
before a short business meeting at
7:15 and the
program begins at 7:30.
Saturday, February 15: Field
Trip
FLATS, FIR ISLAND, AND SAMISH
FLATS
Typically there are great
concentrations of waterfowl and
raptors. The area is
considered one of the top winter
raptor viewing sites in the U.S. Some
walking will
be involved; be prepared for some mud.
Meet at 9 a.m. at Pacific Rim
Institute (PRI)
180 Parker Rd, Coupeville, WA 98239.
At 9:30, second meeting at Windjammer
Park at
the end of South Beeksma Drive in Oak
Harbor. A Discover Pass will be needed
for each
car. Due to narrow road shoulders and
limited parking, carpools are
particularly
important for this trip. Bring a lunch
for this all-day field trip. Return
about 4
p.m. Snow or icy conditions cancels
the trip. The trip leaders are Joe
Sheldon and
Dave Parent. Contact Joe Sheldon, 360-
678-9060  .
Thursday, March 12: Meeting
WESTPORT SEABIRDS
Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
20103 State Route 525, two miles north
of
Freeland
Thursday, April 9: Meeting
USA NATIONAL PHENOLOGICAL NETWORK
Erin Posthumus
Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW
Alexander St.
Thursday, May 14: Meeting
PIGEON GUILLEMOT RESEARCH GROUP
Supported by the University of
Washington
Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW
Alexander St.
Board elections will be held during
the business meeting.
Thursday, June 11: Meeting
DRAGONFLIES
Jim Walker
Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW
Alexander St.
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Picture Gallery
Post your pictures
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Bushtit luncheon
-- Tony Zoars |
Anna's at Peace
-- Nancy Van Wormer
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Northern Flicker Red Shafted
-- Tony
Zoars |
Taking off in Oak Harbor
-- Michael
Sheldon |
Bewicks Wren
-- Patrick Kline |
Orange Crowned Warbler
-- Patrick Kline
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Trumpeter Swans
-- Patrick Kline
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-- Michael Sheldon |
Bald Eagles over Ebey's Bluff
-- Duncan
Kelso |
Northern Harrier
-- Duncan Kelso
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The Bushtits' Thanksgiving
-- Michael
Sheldon |
Great Egret
-- Jann Ledbetter |
Coyote--Deer Lagoon
-- Michael
Sheldon
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Deer Lagoon Leucistic Dark-eyed Junco
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George Heleker |
Savannah vs white-throated sparrow
--
Patricia Duarte-Pocock |
Northern flicker
-- Patricia Duarte-
Pocock |
Partially leucistic Dark-eyed Junco
--
George Heleker |
Willet
-- Albert Rose |
Western Meadowlark
-- Jann
Ledbetter
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