Kelly,

Paul Cozens, Ben Feltner and I watched a singing male Clay-colored Sparrow
on the Yakima Training Center - 150 meters nw of Taylor Pond (T 13 N R 21 E
NW) 9 June 1996. It was not seen the following day.I interpret this bird as
a "Spring overshoot."

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA

>Hi, Tweets,
>
>We're doing the final edits on the Breeding Bird Atlas and have a few
>record loose ends that some Tweeter might be able to help tie up.
>
>Bufflehead: We have a BBA Deep Lake record (Stevens County) that we can't
>find a card for.
>
>Clay-colored Sparrow: We have a single BBA record of a possible breeder
>(probably from 1996) in NE Yakima County, but can't find a card.
>
>White-throated Swift: This is not a BBA record, but Mike mentions in the
>text that a nest was seen on Bear Creek (Chelan County, about halfway
>down and south of Lake Chelan). He thinks the source was a tweeters post
>that got mislaid.
>
>Let me know if either of any records are familiar.
>
>Kelly Cassidy
>WA Coop. Fish&Wildlife Research Unit
>Box 357980
>University of Washington
>Seattle, Washington, 98195
>kelly at u.washington.edu
>
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