That reminds me, last spring I took some classes at North Seatle Community
College, and many of the planting areas, some as small as 5 x 5 feet, had
resident White-crowned Sparrows. I was "pinked" at almost daily as the
quarter progressed. The brave little birds would almost attack us students
as we passed if we were to walk too close. They have my admiration..

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Cliff Drake
Seattle, WA
cliffdrake at qwest.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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