They have always hung out at Appassionato at Interbay also. Good coffee and good birds. Usually good company.

Caio,
Jane

Jane Stewart & Neil W. Burkhardt
McComb Road Nursery
751 McComb Road
Sequim, WA 98382-7882
360.681.2827 t
360.681.7578 f
mailto: mccomb at olympus.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim McGough
To: iweber at seanet.com ; narendraabhagwat at hotmail.com ; TWEETERS at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: White Crowned Sparrow : Downtown Seattle


For several years, a few years ago, White Crowned Sparrows stuck around all summer in the courtyard at the 5th avenue entrance to the Municipal Building.

They may do so still; it's just that I don't.

Jim McGough

ps: Hi, Eileen!
----- Original Message -----
From: Ileen Weber
To: narendraabhagwat at hotmail.com ; TWEETERS at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: White Crowned Sparrow : Downtown Seattle


You know these little guys will nest just about anywhere. I have seen them on a few lonely bushes at the Convention Place entrance to the Metro bus tunnel singing their hearts out right next to a line up of laying over Metro buses. They also have attempted to nest in the planter in the middle of concrete and asphalt right outside the Central Base Operations building at 6th and Atlantic under the freeway. They return to that area every year it seems. They are amazing, nesting in industrial areas.

Ileen Weber
Everett, WA

At 05:45 PM 4/11/01 +0000, narendra bhagwat wrote:

Hi Tweets (again),
Well this singing White Crowned sparrow is almost in Downtown Seattle. Since last 2 weeks I have seen him singing in the parking lot of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) which is at Occidental Ave (one block east of 1st Ave S, in front of Sears). So far I have seen him around 6 times. Most of the times he hangs in the north side of the parking lot.

I've been enjoying his song on my way to the office. It very surprising as this area is surrounded by rail tracks to one side and busy 1st Ave S to another!

I don't know what he is doing their alone!

Happy Birding,
Narendra Bhagwat,
Seattle.
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