Michael,

Since the last nesting reports in the 1920s there have been just a handful
of records (note the precision of my summary). A bird was found dead in
Beaux Arts on the east side of Lake Washington opposite Seattle, King. Co.,
10 July 1974; another was calling near Sultan, Snohomish Co. for a few days
in July 1979. And there have been at least two more recent east side
records. Russell Rogers has all the data in his data base.

Gene Hunn, Seattle, hunnhome at accessone.com



At 11:41 AM 12/15/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Tweets,
>
>Kelly Cassidy asks:
>
>>I've probably missed something vital here, but why are the record peaks
>>assumed to be migration peaks rather than breeding peaks? Were they
>>carrying luggage?
>
>Sorry, Kelly, thanks for the reminder. That was an underlying assumption on
>my part: I was keying on the fact that the most records (early June) here
>coincide with the YB Cuckoo northbound migration period back east: I figured
>it makes no sense for western birds to arrive at breeding territory south of
>here later than they appear here. And if they were breeding in the area in
>which they were found, a calling male would be a pretty unmistakeable part
>of the day's birdsong--these guys are not quiet, just hard to see--except
>where there's nesting Pied-billed Grebes. '-)
>
>So, with Jack B's (thx for finding those dates, JB!) additions, let's see
>what the revised BC graphs would look like:
>
>
> May Jun Jul Aug
>
>No date 1 3 2
>Week 1 2 3 2
>Week 2 2 1 1
>Week 3 1
>Week 4 3 1 1 1
> _____ _____ _____ _____
>
> 4 9 7 4
>
>
>Of known dates (rev'd):
>
> x x
>week x xx x x
>1234 x xxxx xxxx xx
>----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----
> J F M A M J J A S O N D
>
>Total BC records (rev'd): x
> x
>YB Cuckoo x BB Cuckoo x
> x x
> x x x
> x x x x
> x x x x
> x x x x x x
> x x x x x x x
> x x x x x x x
> x x x x x x x
> -|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- -|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-
> J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D
>
>Unfortunately, Birds of BC doesn't discuss subspecies of the specimen
>records. Most likely they'd be the western race occidentalis, but that's
>only a guess.
>
>What's the WA occurrence on the W side of the Cascades? Similar?
>
>
>Michael Price We aren't flying...we're falling with style!
>Vancouver BC Canada -Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
>mprice at mindlink.net
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