Townsend's Warblers are regular in winter in the Puget Sound area - not
really common, but not rare either. We get them on our area of the Olympia
Christmas Count more years than not. I never get tired of seeing them,
though. I often wonder what they forage on that allows them to stay so far
north. Yellow-rumped Warblers are also hardy; they winter in the coastal
scrub at places like Ocean Shores in the huge numbers. But they're much
less common around the sound, I'd say, than Townsend's.

Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
mailto:kraige at oclc.org

>
> Today, at her apartment a few blocks from Enchanted Village
> in Federal Way,
> my niece, Cyndi, saw a townsend's warbler at her feeder. We
> are very excited
> as we have never seen a warbler in the winter. Is it normal
> to see them now?
> Rahne Kirkham
> Federal Way, Washington
> rahne at mindspring.com
> "Joy is the serious business of Heaven"
> C.S.Lewis
>