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Reporter's name: Mary Jo Adams
Sighting Description: I got to Dugualla Bay about 7:30 this morning and saw a lot of interesting birds. They included a sora which I have not seen at this location before, four semipalmated plovers, a Virginia rail, and what I believe were four juvenile spotted sandpipers. The juvenile spotted sandpipers were not quite half the size of the adult they were with, had yellow legs, light bellies, and were doing
a lot of tail bobbing.
Location: Dugualla Bay
Confirmation: I'm not sure if the sighting of the juvenile spotted sandpipers would be considered rare but on the Whidbey Audubon birdlist, it appears they are not known to nest here.
Date and time: 7/20/19 7:30-930 am
Comment submitted Jul 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Patricia Duarte-Pocock
Sighting Description: A male Evening Grosbeak perched for several minutes on a outdoor fireplace near my bird feeders.
Location: This is in the vicinity of Terra Bella Ln and Roseberry in Clinton
Date and time: July 5th about 1 pm
Photo Title: Evening Grosbeak
Comment submitted Jul 8, 2019
Reporter's name: Albert Rose
Sighting Description: This bird was perched high on a dead snag near the home of Isabel Neddow and Phyllis Kind, off of Honeymoon Bay Road. I was just cruising the area looking for birds and this is what I found.
Location: 7 Eagles Lane.
Confirmation: I don't think that this guy is rare, but I checked with Joe Sheldon, and he wasn't sure. Merlin thinks that it is a Willow Flycatcher. I don't know what it is.
Date and time: July 4, 2019 about 10:00 AM
Comment submitted Jul 6, 2019
Reporter's name: Sarah Schmidt
Sighting Description: Tufted Puffin, 11:19 AM, from deck of ferry heading to Port Townsend from Coupeville. Two of us got an excellent view as it was close to port side. In 20 years here, the first time I've seen one from the ferry! Good not to assume all those black birds spread across the water are Rhinoceros Auklets!
Location: Ferry to Port Townsend, 11 minutes before docking.
Date and time: July 2, 2019. 11:19 AM
Comment submitted Jul 2, 2019
Reporter's name: Cheryl Bradkin
Sighting Description: Three fuzzy baby great blue herons in a nest at the Keystone ferry dock. To look into the nest, you have to be on the east (south?) side of the top deck. Nest is on top of the pilings, behind the three tallest. Not rare bird, but it has been a few years since I've seen a nest at the ferry.
Location: Keystone (Coupeville) ferry terminal
Date and time: July 1, 2019 10:15 a.m.
Comment submitted Jul 1, 2019
Reporter's name: Arthur J Fleming
Sighting Description: Owl
Was only on the ground.
Location - Bush Point on our wooded lot, near several meadows.
Location: Bush Point
Confirmation: Short Eared Owl?
Editor's reply: This is a recently fledged Great Horned Owl. Good photo!
Date and time: June 7
Photo Title: Owl
Comment submitted Jul 1, 2019
Reporter's name: George Heleker
Sighting Description: Marbled Godwit-Two standing on mud island on marsh side of the
lagoon area, west of the Deer Lagoon sign. They were not feeding. After about 20
minutes, they flew west and out of sight behind the marsh vegetation.
When I left the area around 10:00 a.m., I tried to locate them from the Double Bluff
Rd. side, but I was unsuccessful. I posted a poor quality photo on my eBird checklist
for i.d. purposes.
Location: Deer Lagoon
Date and time: June 30, 2019-7:36 a.m.
Comment submitted Jun 30, 2019
Reporter's name: Sarah Schmidt
Sighting Description: Two Brown Pelicans from Port Townsend to Coupeville ferry at
noon today. With thousands of Rhinoceros Auklets, Heerman's and Glaucous-winged
gulls, and numerous Marbled Murrelets.
Location: Port Townsend to Coupeville ferry at the mouth of Port Townsend bay.
Date and time: June 22, 2019, 12 pm
Comment submitted Jun 22, 2019
Reporter's name: Dave Parent
Sighting Description: American Redstart male. Flew in front of my car and then
perched on a bare branch 15ft away, 8ft elevation for a few seconds until it flew
into the forest.
Location: Newman Road just west of Emil Road at a gated secluded entrance to the
Earth Sanctuary. Sign on green metal gate reads "NO PARKING STOPPING STANDING ANY
TIME"
Date and time: June 20 2019, 6:15pm
Comment submitted Jun 20, 2019
Reporter's name: Jann Ledbetter
Sighting Description: Peregrine
Falcon
Location: Driftwood Beach
Date and time: 6/13/19 7:00 a.m.
Photo Title: Peregrine Falcon
Comment submitted Jun 14, 2019
Reporter's name: Darwin Wile
Sighting Description: western wood
pewee - along wooded trail leading to
west dike; also, along the same
trail, one male each of all three
versions of teal in my scope at one
time.
Location: west dike, Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 6/3/19; 1:45pm
Comment submitted Jun 3, 2019
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Olive-sided Flycatcher
-- Michael Sheldon |
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Evening Grosbeak
-- Patricia Duarte-Pocock |
Shorebird rendezvous at Crockett Lake
-- Michael Sheldon |
-- Albert Rose |
Fledgling Cliff Swallow?
-- Albert
Rose |
Soggy Osprey
-- Mary Hollen |
Owl
-- Arthur J Fleming
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Bald Eagle in Mutiny
Bay
-- Marc
Schwieterman |
Peregrine Falcon
-- Jann Ledbetter
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Red Necked Phalarope
-- Albert Rose
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Common Nighthawk
-- Jennifer Holmes
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Two hummingbirds and a
spider
-- George
Heleker |
Chipping Sparrow
-- Joe Sheldon
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-- Nancy Van
Wormer |
Take off
-- Nancy
Van Wormer |
Deer Lagoon American
Pipit
-- George
Heleker |
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