Just to add a correction to Wayne Weber's article on the Hooded Warbler
in Sechelt B.C., this is in fact the third record for B.C.and the second
record for the winter.Previous to Rick Toochin's excellent find was a
record from Tofino of a female from the 14-16 December 1989 which was
photographed*. I would suggest that with 3 records that forms some sort
of a vagrancy pattern for the west coast of British Columbia,and that we
should all look carefully at any yellow type Warbler which is out of
season,as at least 5 species can easly be confused i.e. Yellow,Wilson's
Hooded,Common Yellowthroat and possibly Orange-crowned Warbler

*Kieth Taylor's A Birders Guide to Vancouver Island 1994

Derrick Marven
Duncan B.C.
Land of the hybrid
marven at home.com