[Tweeters] FOS Varied Thrush (Jay E) and….

[Steve Platz]

That’s great! I’ve been noticing numerous VT in the yard and on the road for the past week or so here in Greenbank, I should look back to when I’ve started reporting them here in years past, probably around now. On another topic that I’ve wanted to mention, my wife and I noticed a very curious bird at the Keystone boat launch last Sunday as we got ready to go out, it seemed interested in our boat, and even dove a little to catch crumbs of something. It was a juvenile sea duck, likely a White-winged Scoter. When we left the ramp, it was sleeping in the shallows, with its head tucked back. We returned the next day to pay our launch fee and noticed the poor thing dead on the rocks. My wife and daughter were very upset to see it, perhaps it was just too far from a good food source.

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> I was on a walk last week here in Bellingham and there were about six

> Varied Thrushes on the trail. I was lucky enough to capture an image - it

> was pretty low light and at a distance.

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> https://ebird.org/checklist/S153115621

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> Jay Eisenberg

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> From: Larry Schwitters <leschwitters at me.com>

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> White Pelican off the point at Issaquah Lake Sammamish State Park. Knew that wasn?t a Bunting but what about that sparrow thing on the main beach near the dozen gulls. Not like any sparrow normally seen around King County. Very tame. Got to within 15 feet and didn?t spook it. Was still there when we left 20 minutes ago.

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> Not a Bunting.

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> 90% sure it?s a Clay-colored.

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> Larry Schwitters

> Issaquah

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> Subject: [Tweeters] 1st-known 'highly pathogenic' bird flu cases in

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