Subject: Warblers in Ketchikan
Date: May 10 11:39:38 1997
From: Sharron Huffman - sharron at ptialaska.net
On the Ketchikan area checklist, there are 6 warblers listed as being
"possible" in the spring:
Orange-Crowned (Common)
Yellow (Fairly Common)
Yellow-Rumped (Uncommon)
Townsend's (Common)
Common Yellowthroat (Uncommon)
Wilson's (Uncommon)
Since 4:00 p.m. yesterday, I have seen all of the above except for the
Common Yellowthroat! The pair of Yellow-Rumped Warblers were the first I
can remember seeing in this area; they were Myrtles. The alders are not
quite fully leafed out, offering wonderful views. I watched one Yellow
Warbler working from one salmonberry blossom to another, after the insects
inside the blossoms I assume? At each blossom, he would stick his head deep
inside.
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* Sharron Huffman * "What would the world be,
* Ketchikan, Alaska * once bereft of wet and wildness?
* sharron at ptialaska.net * Let them be left.
*************************** Oh let them be left, wildness and wet ..."
--Gerard Manley Hopkins