It's Rick Romea's fault. I have lots of important things to do, but Rick
wrote a message yesterday (see below). I read his message and decided it
was my "quest". It inspired me to blow off all my obligations and do a
2-hour birding stroll from 10AM til noon in my neighborhood here south of
Seatac airport. I was in my suburb-type neighborhood and in the mixed woods
nearby. Here are some highlights:
Chestnut-backed Chickadees - 3
Wilson's Warbler - approx. 6 scattered about singing in alders- saw one bird
very close
Black-throated Gray Warbler - approx. 6 singing - saw two close enough to
see yellow lores
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
Townsend's Warbler - 1 male
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 heard in distance
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Hutton's Vireo - 2
And some unidentified birds (ah, the challenge)...
Thanks for your great message, Rick. Now, I really must get to work. ;-)
Carol Schulz
DesMoines
linusq at worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Romea <romea at pmel.noaa.gov>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: Four-Letter Bird Abbreviations


Hi Tweets,
The 4 letter codes are pretty handy if you're taking lots of field notes, or
marking locations on your DeLorme Atlas (e.g., "here's where I saw a
Pacific-slope Flycatcher" takes up lots more room than "PSFL"), and you do
get used to the codes if you work with them. On the other hand, I agree
that they can be MTTW (more trouble than they're worth?) when used in
general writing.

Incidentally, I had a pretty good neo-tropical migrant weekend, at several
locations around the Puget Sound lowlands (Cougar Mt, Ft. Lewis Prairies,
Carnation Marsh), I saw and heard:

Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
McGillavray's Warbler
Black-throated Grey Warbler
Nashville Warbler
(missed Townsand's and Hermit)

Warbling Vireo
Cassin's Vireo

Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Hammond's Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Western Kingbird

I guess they're back!

Rick Romea
romea at pmel.noaa.gov
NOAA/PMEL,7600 Sand Point Way NE,Seattle,WA 98115-0070
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