Hi Tweets:

This morning I heard and saw the White-crowned sparrow singing for the
first time while walking from my car in downtown Seattle to the building
I work in. I kept looking around this spring and waiting for weeks to
hear the WCSP in downtown, and finally the singing came (even though I
saw a bunch of them on the Olympic peninsula about 2 weeks ago).
Interestingly, it was singing on the same spot on a railing next to a
parking lot as last year (in addition to others I've seen at various
locations). Now I have to figure out if it is pugetensis or gambelii.
I'll listen for the "chili chili" song or for the "zweet zweet" that
Michael Price mentions. I suspect it's probably a gambelii.

Franny Drobny

-----Original Message-----
From: B&P Bell [SMTP:bellasoc at mail.isomedia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 5:10 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Hidden Migrants

Good Morning Tweets

On my morning walk on our hill I usually see White-crowned
Sparrow
throughout the winter, generally gambellii, and they generally
start
some singing in late winter/very early spring. For the last
month I have
neither seen nor heard a WCSP. This morning, I had a singing
WCSP which,
based in my recollection of the song, I suspect was a
pugetensis, but it
flew before I could confirm that. Because of the interval with
no
visible or audible WCSP I feel fairly confident this mornings
bird was
pugetensis. Nice to hear it again.

Brian H. Bell
Woodinville WA
bellasoc at isomedia.com