The Tweeter's Okanogan trip last weekend found 3 Townsend's Solitaires
(6200ft elev). This seems like a late date (10/1) for such elevation to me.

When do they normally move out of the mountains?

At 09:24 AM 10/5/95 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Oct 1995 jbroadus at seanet.com wrote:
>> I am checking the "facts" for an article I am writing about a trip to the
>> cascades and I was told that our sighting of a Townsend's Solitaire at 3500
>> ft was unusual. Can anyone tell me if this is a lower than normal
>
>I wouldn't say it was outrageously low. I found a nest near Blewett Pass
>two years ago, which isn't much higher than that, and this species is
>common at the Camas Crk. Burn, of similar elevation. This spring, this
>species was common in pines at lower elevations below Satus Pass.
>
>-------------
>Michael R. Smith
>Univ. of Washington, Seattle
>whimbrel at u.washington.edu
>http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html
>
>
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