What plumage? Coastal sightings of basic-plumge birds are pretty common
in Winter, but breeding-plumage sightings are infrequent. There were at
least two breeding-plumage males sighted last year (one by me in
Redmond, and one by Andy Steppanievski in Yakima county(?)). I am
curious about just how rare alternate-plumage really is here.


== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== mikeho at microsoft.com


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> From: kraig at wln.com[SMTP:kraig at wln.com]
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> At 10:30 this morning I spotted a Palm Warbler in, of all places, the
> Lacey Fred Meyer parking lot (off Sleator-Kinney Rd. south from I-5).
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