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Reporter's name: Mary Hollen
Sighting Description: Possible Song Sparrow fledgling. Need help identifying, to
confirm nesting in this neighborhood. Please post here if you can ID.
Location: Steelhead Drive, Lagoon Point, Whidbey Island WA
Date and time: August 5, 2019 about 6:30pm
Photo Title: Song sparrow fledgling?
Comment submitted Aug 11, 2019
Response from Linda Bainbridge:
Unfortunately, Mary, it looks like a young Brown-headed Cowbird. Just two days ago I
saw a junco feeding one. They are large and noisy beggars.
Comment submitted Aug 12, 2019
Reporter's name: George Heleker
Sighting Description: Now that August has arrived, the warblers are arriving too,
especially within the chickadee flocks. Birding this morning in our yard, I had found
no warblers and the birding was slow. I checked our pond area which is in the woods
but near the edge of our field, and it was unusually quiet. When I checked again 15
minutes later, 12+ chickadees, mostly Chestnut-backed had arrived, which raised my
chances of warbler sightings considerably. Nearly every bird present took at least
one bath.
Within 30 minutes, I had seen 3 Townsend's warblers, 3 Orange-crowned Warblers (one
of them entirely gray-headed and the darkest Orange-crowned I have seen), 1 female
Black-throated Gray, 2 Wilson's, and 1 Yellow-rumped.
Other birds seen at the same time by the pond were Brown Creepers (three bathing
together) 2 Hutton's Vireos, 4 Golden-crowned Kinglets (they couldn't get enough of
the water), 2 Swainson's Thrushes, 4 Song Sparrows, 2 Spotted Towhees, 2 Robins, an
Anna's Hummingbird flycatching, 5 nuthatches, 1 Pacific slope Flycatcher, 2 Bewick's
Wrens, 1 Downy Woodpecker, and 2 flickers.
Location: Two miles southwest of Clinton
Date and time: August 9th. 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Comment submitted Aug 9, 2019
Reporter's name: Jay Adams
Sighting Description: Green Heron. First seen in mid-afternoon by a friend. When we
got the news some four hours later we decided to check the location on the odd chance
the bird might still be around. Of course it wasn't, but then, it was. We were almost
back to the car when the bird flew in from the east and perched on a small piece of
wood in the channel. We photographed it there. After several minutes, the bird flew
off, only to return as we got in the car. We left it feeding along the channel's
eastern bank.
Location: Tide Gate Channel next to Callen's Restaurant, across from the Coupeville
Ferry terminal.
Confirmation: This is the second Green Heron seen on Whidbey in the past four days.
The earlier report was from Deer Lagoon.
Date and time: August 7, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Photo Title: Green Heron
Comment submitted Aug 7, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: Sizable flock of bushtits arrived at suet feeders today. First
time seeing them in these numbers, at least 8 seen at one time.
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 4AUG19, 738 PM
Photo Title: Bushtits at feeder
Comment submitted Aug 4, 2019
Reporter's name: Jay Adams
Sighting Description: Green Heron, perched in a snag off the trial from the end of
Deer Lagoon Road to the West Dike. Seen by Michael Sheldon and me. Michael's photo of
the bird is attached.
Location: Deer Lagoon
Confirmation: The Whidbey Audubon checklist lists this species as being accidental
here in the summer. Green Heron is a Code 4 (meaning rare) bird for Island County on
the Washington Birder checklist.
Date and time: August 4, 2019 at about 10:00 a.m.
Photo Title: Michael Sheldon Photo/Green Heron
Comment submitted Aug 4, 2019
Reporter's name: Dave Parent
Sighting Description: Hudsonian Godwit reported by Jay Adams still present at 7am at
the northeast corner of Crockett Lake associating with dowitchers.
Location: NE Corner of Crockett Lake
Date and time: 8/3/19 7am
Comment submitted Aug 3, 2019
Reporter's name: Albert Rose
Sighting Description: I was tucked away in the rushes at Deer Lagoon, watching
Pelicans and Bonaparte's Gulls, when out of the corner of my eye, near my feet I saw
some movement, it was a Virginia Rail checking things out.
Location: Deer Lagoon
Date and time: 7 31 19 about noon
Photo Title: Virginia Rail
Comment submitted Aug 1, 2019
Reporter's name: Jay Adams
Sighting Description: Hudsonian Godwit feeding with Long-billed Dowitchers and
Western Sandpipers.
Location: Northeastern end of Crockett Lake
Confirmation: According to eBird, this may be just the second of HUGO on Whidbey. The
species is not included on the official Whidbey Audubon checklist. It is listed on
the Washington Birder site as a code 5 bird - fewer than 5 records for Island County.
Date and time: 8:00 a.m.
Photo Title: Hudsonian Godwit
Comment submitted Jul 31, 2019
Reporter's name: Ruth Scrivner
Sighting Description: We counted 204 Great Blue Herons on the mudflats at Dugualla
Bay.
Location: Dugualla Bay
Date and time: July 30 2019 10:45 am
Comment submitted Jul 31, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: Gray Catbird seen visiting ground level birdbath. Full view,
fully lighted viewing at 6-8 feet for about a full minute. Understand this is a
somewhat unusual find, but have extensive experience with this species in Illinois.
Will be looking for a return with camera in hand!
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 25Jul19, 1720
Comment submitted Jul 25, 2019
Reporter's name: Patrick Kline
Sighting Description: Female immature Red Crossbill at platform feeder today. As with
most Crossbills it was most undisturbed by my presence.
Location: Pennington Loop, Coupeville
Date and time: 23Jul2019, 1446
Photo Title: Female Immature Red Crossbill
Comment submitted Jul 24, 2019
Reporter's name: Jay Adams
Sighting Description: Female Wislon's Phalarope
Location: Crockett Lake: First salt pool after crossing the road opposite the gravel
pond pull out at the east end of the lake.
Confirmation: This is only the second WIPH I have seen on Whidbey in the last five
years.
Date and time: July 23, 2019 at about 8:40
Comment submitted Jul 23, 2019
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
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Picture Gallery
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Song sparrow fledgling?
-- Mary Hollen |
Green Heron
-- Jay Adams |
Bushtits at feeder
-- Patrick Kline |
Michael Sheldon Photo/Green Heron
-- Jay Adams |
Virginia Rail
-- Albert Rose |
Hudsonian Godwit
-- Jay Adams |
Just hanging out
-- Lori Riter |
Female Immature Red Crossbill
--
Patrick Kline |
Baby spotted sandpiper with parent
--
Mary Jo Adams |
PGs horsing around at Coupeville Ferry
Terminal
-- Michael Sheldon |
Olive-sided Flycatcher
-- Michael
Sheldon |
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Evening Grosbeak
-- Patricia Duarte-
Pocock |
Shorebird rendezvous at Crockett Lake
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- 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
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