Norton360 at aol.com wrote:
>
> TWEETS,
> The current thread on nesting House Wrens stimulates me to share my
> thoughts on local birds. I moved here in '93 and until this year had seen
> none in Clallam. In '96 a friend in Jefferson Co. near Port Townsend had them
> nest in a box but they did not return this year.
> After a while I began to really search. It is regularly reported in the
> Sequim area and always by people living on the hills to the south. ...snip
> Most of my birding has been in the lowlands or quite high. My suspicion
> is that they are birds of the middle area in this general area. Perhaps
> someone can give confirmation to that theory or announce that they live on a
> coastal bluff and have had nesting House Wrens for years.

My husband and I saw and heard a singing male house wren in June 1996 in
a hilly clearcut in Gray's Harbor County (between Raymond and
Montesano). By my (fallible) memory, I think it would be accurate to
call it a "middle" elevation.

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Jane Hadley
jhadle at halcyon.com
Seattle, WA