I am seeing Townsend's warblers fairly regularly in my flocks of kinglets
and chickadees in the Inglewood area (north of Kirkland). Usually only one
in any given flock of about 20 birds, and not in every flock (that I can
tell). I usually see about one a week. However, I never saw one in Seattle
(I lived in the Ravenna area), but only have a two-winter sample there.

- Teresa Michelsen TEMI461 at ecy.wa.gov
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From: tweeters
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: winter warblers in "pacific nw"
Date: Mon, Jan 9, 1995 12:18PM

I am out looking for birds in urban Bellingham several days a week and have
yet to see a Townsend's Warbler this winter (some other birder here at WWU
told
me that she had one outside her window). All of the Yellow-rumps I have seen
are
singles and I check every chickadee flock. In great contrast, it is common
in
the San francisco Bay Area to find winter flocks containing several warbler
species and in some areas (urban Pacific Grove) there are often flocks with
five
or more species. Clark blake, Dept. Geology,WWU Bellingham, WA 98225