<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FWIW - that 2018 Grays Harbor Whooper Swan report was not accepted on the WBRC review. There were reports that a local family had two Whoopers they kept that repeatedly escaped and wandered around the Elma/Montesano area.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That one doesn’t ‘count’, sorry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Matt Bartels</div><div class="">Secretary, WBRC</div><div class="">Seattle, WA<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 21, 2022, at 1:25 PM, Marcus Vorwaller <<a href="mailto:marcus@vorwaller.net" class="">marcus@vorwaller.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I also saw a Whooper swan in Elma, Washington in 2019: <a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S54148687" class="">https://ebird.org/checklist/S54148687</a> it was marked an exotic by ebird admins but as far as I know there is no evidence that it was an escapee. Perhaps the same bird again.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:00 PM Ian Paulsen <<a href="mailto:birdbooker@zipcon.net" class="">birdbooker@zipcon.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">HI ALL:<br class="">
Saw this posted on the ABA's RBA Facebook page:" A Whooper Swan was found <br class="">
Nov. 19 in Courtenay on Vancouver Island, BC. It was relocated on the <br class="">
20th. There is speculation that this could be the returning individual <br class="">
that was seen last spring in Washington, Vancouver BC and the Yukon. If so <br class="">
Washington birders should keep their eyes open in areas where it was found <br class="">
previously."<br class="">
<br class="">
sincerely<br class="">
Ian Paulsen<br class="">
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA<br class="">
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