Subject: Re: Tatoosh Island trip
Date: Oct 14 15:28:56 1998
From: "S. Downes" - sdownes at u.washington.edu


Chris and tweets,
Those at the 1996 Ocean Shores WOS confrence, and more importantly the
Saturday morning Pt. Grenville trip, might remember that there were 3
seperate Palm Warblers seen on this trip. One was a adult still in mostly
alternate plumage, seen by me and could not be relocated. Two others in
basic plumage seen my most everybody. There could have been more, given
the amount of area. I have always believed and perhaps Chris' sighting
helps to confer with this that while Palm Warblers are "rare" in
Washington a fair number use the outer coastline annually as a stopover
area and a few do in fact winter at Ocean Shores usually. Given the fact
that promitories such as Pt. Grenville and Tatoosh are logical landing
areas for migrants along the coast, the sighting of these Palm Warblers
does not suprise me, though a good sighting anyhow. If anybody else has
thoughts on this idea, I would love to hear them.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA