>Hello Tweeters,
>With most interest i read Bob Boekelheide ,Migration Count for May in
>Clallam County.In particular the large amount of Wilson;s Warbler sighted.
>I was puzzled over the high count of this species in my yard, 6 at one
>time. The first arrival was a single male on 4-28, what i consider a good
>bird in my yard. But when i saw the female few days later , i got realy
>excited. Than later one day we counted 6 Wilson Warbler in one Birchtree
>The two stayed on, seing them every day. Two days on thursday in the
>evening i see both of this birds going on the ground flying quite wild and
>fast to the yard. This behavier was going on for about one hour. I was
>sitting on the window watching this little birds with facination. To finaly
>i saw them picking up nesting material. Since my yard is so full of bushes,
>it was impossible to tell where exact there carry the nesting material. I
>did not see this birds back since than. This had to be a good year for this
>Species. All the birders in the field i talk too seems also seeing this
>birds abundant.
>Ruth Sullivan
>GODWIT at worldnet.att.net

>From experience, my FEELINGS are that migrating Wilson's Warblers are
affected more by rainy weather than other warblers. We had that low
pressure system parked off the coast for much of the latter part of
May. That ssemed to "knock" the migration out of the Wilson's Warblers
until the weather improved.

During May here in Wenatchee, I woke up to the song of a Wilson's
Warbler more than a couple of mornings.

As to Clallam County on May 9, these may be the usual BREEDING birds.
The song of the Wilson's Warbler also makes it one of the more
conspicuous warblers.



--Jerry <tangren at wsu.edu>
WSU-TFREC, Wenatchee WA