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Reporter's name: Traci and Robert York
Sighting Description: Female Short Eared Owl
Location: West side of Crockett Lake on a metal T post -photo taken through binocular lens.
Date and time: 12/10/18 @ 2:45
Comment submitted Dec 10, 2018
Reporter's name: Vincent Hagel
Sighting Description: 46 Black Oyster Catchers feeding along the shoreline.
Location: Oak Harbor City Beach in front of the new sewage disposal facility. Spread about two
hundred yards.
Date and time: Today, Saturday, December 8 at about 2 p.m.
Comment submitted Dec 8, 2018
Reporter's name: Vincent Hagel
Sighting Description: Update to all white ring-billed gull posting. I was much closer to the
bird again yesterday. The bill is a pale yellow, with the clearly marked black ring around the
end of the bill. The legs and feet are pink, not black. It is a much larger gull, at least
15-20% larger than the dozen immature ring-bills it was traveling with, so large that it seemed
like a giant next to them, like a seven foot basketball player walking among six footers. It
walked around the grassy area with them, but they would not quite mingle with it on land. They
flew to a nearby pond, and the dozen immatures swam together, but the all white gull had to
swim around the pack at about twenty feet away. If it swam toward them, they would move away
slightly, keeping their distance.
Location: Whidbey Golf Course
Date and time: 12/1/2018 at about noon.
Comment submitted Dec 2, 2018
Reporter's name: Vincent Hagel
Sighting Description: Around noon today, Nov. 30th, I saw a completely white gull. ALL of its
feathers were white. The bill was very pale, almost white, with a black ring, like a ring
billed gull. The eyes were black, not pink, and I couldn't get a good look at the legs, but I
"feel" like they were black. The bird was fairly elusive, though it was walking about and
feeding with some immature ring billed gulls. I was about forty or fifty yards from it. A
friend who was with me today said he saw the same bird yesterday at a different location on the
golf course.
Location: Seen at the Whidbey Golf Club
Confirmation: I only list this as rare, not because it's a ring billed gull, but I've been an
avid birder for forty years and have never seen an all white gull before today.
Date and time: 11/30/2018 at about noon.
Comment submitted Nov 30, 2018
Reporter's name: Carla Corin
Sighting Description: White-throated Sparrow (tan striped) under our bird feeder today (along
with the usual suspects, including 16 California Quail). Second one we�ve had this year -
other was in May.
Location: West Beach and Barque, Oak Harbor
Date and time: Nov. 24, 11 a.m.
Comment submitted Nov 24, 2018
Reporter's name: Carla Corin
Sighting Description: Chipping Sparrow at Pacific Rim Institute, moving between the parking
area and the fenced orchard/garden plot. Listed as rare on Whidbey list, though there seem to
be annualsightings at this location.
Location: Pacific Rim Institute, Coupeville
Date and time: Nov. 15, 1 p.m.
Comment submitted Nov 15, 2018
Reporter's name: Nancy Van Wormer
Sighting Description: A Wilson's Snipe appeared on my side lawn dipping his long bill
repeatedly into the lawn obviously eating something delicious. Being from the midwest I
immediately thought it was a Woodcock but got out the trusty bird books to discover it was a
Wilsons or Common Snipe. I took a video.
Location: On the bluff of Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 7:45 in the morning of December 9.
Comment submitted Nov 14, 2018
Reporter's name: Jann Ledbetter
Sighting Description: This Yellow-shafted Flicker was seen with a flock of 7-8 Red-shafted
Northern Flickers that have been coming to my yard regularly.
Location: Coupeville (not far from downtown)
Confirmation: While red-shafted Flickers are quite common, I'm learning that the yellow-shafted
is somewhat rare. This one has the brown face, black malar and red nape crescent, as well as
the yellow shafts that seem to indicate it is a pure yellow-shafted Flicker, and not an
intergrade.
Date and time: 11/12/18 a.m.
Photo Title: Flicker, Yellow-shafted
Comment submitted Nov 13, 2018
Reporter's name: Darwin Wile
Sighting Description: Walking the west dike - 3 male + 2 female redheads (not canvasbacks)
remarkable in that they are listed as rare on the Whidbey check list; at least 4 male Eurasian
wigeons; a peregrine kept the ducks moving and the dunlins murmurating; didn't find George's
snow bunting.
Location: Deer Lagoon, west dike
Date and time: 11/11/18; 2:30pm
Comment submitted Nov 11, 2018
Reporter's name: Marie Shaw
Sighting Description: Three trumpeter swans flying over northeast over Crockett Lake at 9:30
this morning.
Location: Crockett Lake
Date and time: 11/11/2018 9:30 am
Comment submitted Nov 11, 2018
Reporter's name: George Heleker
Sighting Description: Snow Bunting found at the lagoon area on the beach between the lagoon and
the bay, moving in and out of vegetation and driftwood and foraging on the sand. I saw one in
the same area on March 6, 2018.
An American White Pelican continues to hang out at the lagoon and the adjacent marsh.
A Northern Shrike is still hunting in the area, first reported on 10/12/2018.
A Sora continues. It called today for about 10 seconds. Likely the same bird that was first
reported on 10/4/2018 and by several other observers since.
Six Snow geese again for this observer on the marsh side of the lagoon area. There have been 1-
70 reported here this fall since 10/21/2018.
Location: Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 11/10/2018. During bird walk from 8:33-2:08
Photo Title: Deer Lagoon Snow Bunting
Comment submitted Nov 10, 2018
Reporter's name: Kellee Roberti
Sighting Description: Male ring neck pheasant seen on our property Tuesday afternoon and this
morning foraging in our horse pastures.
Location: Near the north end of pintail road
Date and time: 11/8/18 at 7:30 am
Comment submitted Nov 8, 2018
Reporter's name: David Parent
Sighting Description: Two Snow Geese one adult, one juvenile. The adult has a left leg
lameness. Both foraging normally.
Location: On the fairway near Dunlap Drive, Holmes Harbor Golf Course
Date and time: 11/5/18 1:45 pm
Comment submitted Nov 5, 2018
Reporter's name: Sue Minger
Sighting Description: A duck with a redhead and large black stripe running laterally over face
and eye area. It was by itself. Duck was mallard size. I'm an experienced birder and I could
not identify it.
Location: Deer Lagoon--one of the ponds.
Date and time: 11/02/18 1 pm
Comment submitted Nov 2, 2018
Reporter's name: Martha Hollis
Sighting Description: A flock of 35 Snow Geese on Ebey's Prairie Ebey's Landing Road across
from Willow Wood Farm.
First time I've ever seen them on our island.
Location: Ebey's Landing Road, about 1/4 miles from the beach
Date and time: 10-31-18 approximately 3:00 pm.
Comment submitted Oct 31, 2018
Reporter's name: Sego Jackson
Sighting Description: Northern Shrike perched on top of very long bamboo pole in garden (about
15 feet up.) First time I've seen on our property. I see there was a sighting in Maxwelton area
last week.
Location: Midvale Road
Date and time: Oct. 29, 2018. 10:45 am
Comment submitted Oct 29, 2018
Reporter's name: Joe K Sheldon
Sighting Description: Large numbers of waterfowl including five Greater White-fronted Geese,
one Snow Goose, 20 Cackling Geese, 100+ Canada Geese, 100+ of both Mallards and Northern
Pintail, and two Gadwall. The birds were foraging in the farm field.
Location: Immediately north of Cook Road on Ebey's Prairie, Coupeville.
Date and time: 28 October 2018, 4 PM.
Comment submitted Oct 28, 2018
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Birding in the Neighborhoods - Weekly Field Trips
South Whidbey
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Saturday, December 15: NORTH WHIDBEY (waoh)
AUDUBON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
Contact Jay Adams (email) to participate.
Saturday, December 29: SOUTH WHIDBEY AUDUBON
CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
Contact Govinda Rosling (email) to participate.
Tuesday, January 8: FIELD TRIP WITH JANET HALL.
Save the date.
Thursday, January 11: Meeting
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Possession Point Black Scoters
-- George Heleker |
Flicker, Yellow-shafted
-- Jann Ledbetter |
Deer Lagoon Snow Bunting
-- George Heleker
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Deer Lagoon Barred Owl
-- George Heleker
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Fir Island
-- Michael |
Barred Owl
-- Lori Erikson
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Black-Throated Gray Warbler
-- John Schuster
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Merlin
-- Michael Sheldon
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Adult and Chick Bald Eagles
-- John
Keller |
-- Michael Sheldon |
-- John Schuster |
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