hi all ... Gene and I headed out to the Astoria area today to look for the Tropical Kingbird and then to Seaside Cove for the Long Tailed Duck ... both birds were mentioned over the weekend by Mike P. and Lee C. ... unfortunately we found neither ... our "bird of the day" however was the Clay-Colored Sparrow on Wireless Road ... same place as previously mentioned -- across from some pens ... Seaside Cove was full of scope-view Scoters (Surf, White-Winged), Scaup, and Harlequins ... hundreds of them spread out across the Cove ... if there was a Long-Tailed Duck in there we didn't spot one ... Lyn Lyn Topinka Vancouver,Wa. OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx