<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp2d8352b1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Delia and I were at the Redmond Retention Pond yesterday am where Delia's Merlin ap told her she was hearing a "Blue Grosbeak" at one point. This seems kind of funny now that Shamik Ghosh has found a for-sure one at Marymoor. We didn't give it a second thought at the time, bad on us! </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Also at the ponds we ran into an extremely nice young man from Boston who asked me a question and I assumed he was a beginning birder, but it immediately became clear he was an accomplished birder already, just working a new area.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">His name is Kalpesh Krishna and he wrote us this note: </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"I am spending my summer in Seattle doing an internship. I am living at UDistrict close to University of Washington. I will be around till the end of August. I was hoping to get as many birds as possible!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I was wondering what were the best places to bird outside the King county? I was looking for American Dippers, Hutton Vireo, Hammond Flycatcher, California Quails, MacGillivrays Warblers, Cassins Vireo, Black Swift, Yellow headed blackbird and a bunch of other species, and it seems like going outside King county is better to get them?"</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We are intending to keep in touch with Kalpesh and invite him on trips this summer but I thought he might also benefit from other birders who have more knowledge than we do, aren't so trapped in work and maybe even have a car that can make it over Snoqualmie Pass without flashing a "Check Engine" light and losing power.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi email:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">kalpesh@cs.umass.edu</span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thanks all</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ed Newbold (and Delia Scholes) residential Beacon Hill where we had only our second-ever Turkey Vulture sighting at 5 today. ednewbold1@yahoo.com</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(130, 138, 147); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>