Patrick Sullivan wrote:

> An actual photograph was made by a reporter of the local Methow
> Valley News paper in Twisp at Richard Murray's residence, and an article
> written about this first WA record, which also clearly shows this species to
> be of the white-lored subspecies, which may or may have not been mentioned
> by other observers that observed this particular bird.

Tweets, merry merry etc. Here is the URL for the page from the e-version
of the Methow Valley News:

http://www.methowvalleynews.com/local.htm#Local resident scores rare
bird sighting

A stunning little creature even in black and white. I think I may have
to go look at this one.

Cheerfully, your url elf,
Paul

Paul Moorehead
pjm at sos.net
Guemes, WA