Hi Deanie,
It comes to mine mind, that it could be a Black-capped Chickadee. There
was quite a discussion going on tweeter last year about all this strange
mismarked Chickadees are beeing seen all over. Ihad three in my yard last
year. Dennis Paulson wrote a message on this kind of birds last year on
tweeters. This birds showing almost all white on the head , verry little
black all over. Cause we must know what group of birds we talking about.
The shape of a warbler is diffrent than this of a chickadee, so is the
behavier.
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: DShepgolf at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Bird ID help, please
> Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 9:38 PM
>
> Hi folks -
>
> I'm a pretty new birder and am looking for some help on a bird I saw
yesterday
> here in Seattle. I'm on the only person who saw it and have nagging
doubts
> I've ID'd it correctly. When the rains stopped around dusk, a number of
birds
> came into my backyard. Among them, a flock of 15 or so robins and 1
varied
> thrush, a fox sparrow and another small bird. At first I thought it was
a
> nuthatch, when I saw it land on the cedar, it twisted and spiraled down
for
> just a moment. Then I thought it was a chickadee, because I could see
that
> there was no brown, only black and white. But the crown was entirely
white,
> except for black on the sides. It had so much white that I thought it
could
> not have been a chickadee. It flew into a shrub and when it came back
out a
> minute or so later, I could see it had a completely white throat and
chest.
> There was a lot of white on the wings as well. Then it flew out of
sight.
> This was all without binoculars, so maybe I just didn't see it properly.
But,
> there are a number of chickadees here, and I'm certain there was a
difference
> - No black on the throat or crown.
>
> The only thing that looked even close in the NGS guide was the B&W
Warbler or
> the Snow Bunting in breeding plumage, and the latter seems
unlikely,right?
> But according to the map in the book, Seattle is way out of it's range.
Am I
> way off base here? If it's not that, what might it be? Thanks in
advance for
> your assistance.
>
> Deanie
> Seattle - Wedgewood