And don't forget the White-crowned Sparrows. We seem to have lost our
wintering flocks, and I heard my first singing White-crowned in Tacoma last
Saturday and several more since. The singing ones are almost certainly
migrants (although I haven't spent the time to learn/identify races).

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Riesen Reto <riesenr at chem.ubc.ca>
To: mprice at mindlink.bc.ca <mprice at mindlink.bc.ca>
Cc: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 1:40 AM
Subject: Hidden Migrants (was: Spring is..)


>Hi tweets,
>
>Michael Price mentions
>> ....Some other species which seem to be heading north as well right
>> now, though as with the sapsuckers the migrant components are masked by
>> locally-resident birds, are Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias,
interior-race
>> Downy & Hairy Woodpeckers Picoides pubescens P. villosus, Golden-crowned
>> Kinglet Regulus satrapa, Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus and Song Sparrow
>> Melospiza melodia.
>
>Another species in this category would be the Winter Wren. I had on my
>loop 1 to 3 of them every time, but today, in mid-day, I found 8. Besides
>the big number, their behaviour was also a bit different; the residents
>were normally quite shy, but the ones today were easily visible, even
>curious or at least oblivious to me.
>
>Another sign that migration is on: species numbers are up, UP. Jan: 40;
>Feb: 37; March: 46; April (first quarter only): 39.
>
>Reto Riesen
>Dept. Chem., UBC
>Vancouver, B.C.
>riesenr at chem.ubc.ca
>
>