Wayne,

I'd be interested in seeing your earlier postings.

Ilene Samowitz
Cedar Park, NE Seattle (N of Matthews Beach)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne C. Weber" <contopus at shaw.ca>
To: "TWEETERS" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Cc: "ELLEN GRANFIELD" <edgranfield at attbi.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: errors-- Which Crow Species??


> Ellen,
>
> You were not entirely wrong when you reported Northwestern Crows
> recently in Seattle. The crows in the Seattle area are actually a
> hybrid population between Northwestern and American Crows, although
> probably tending more toward American Crows. As you go father north in
> western Washington, the crows become more and more like Northwesterns.
> In the San Juan Islands and in western Whatcom and Skagit Counties, as
> best I can tell, the crows appear to be pure Northwesterns. In
> southwestern British Columbia (both Vancouver Island and the southern
> mainland coast), we have only Northwestern Crows, and American Crows
> are virtually unknown.
>
> Many birders in western Washington just throw up their hands, and call
> all crows "crow species". The situation certainly needs further study,
> but the crows around Seattle definitely are NOT pure American Crows.
>
> I have posted on this subject before on Tweeters, and can repost some
> of my earlier messages if anyone is interested.
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Kamloops and Delta, BC
> contopus at shaw.ca
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ellen Granfield <edgranfield at attbi.com>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: errors
>
>
> Thanks go to Marv Breece for noting two errors on my very first
> Tweeters report. I spotted Glaucous-Winged Gulls, not Glaucous Gulls
> and Common Crows, not Northwestern Crows. I have received several
> suggestions that I was seeing a Yellow-Rumped Warbler, but the yellow
> patch under it's chin was very prominent and aside from the two yellow
> patches on it's side it was mostly brown. I'm wondering now if maybe
> it was an imateur male Audubon's Warbler.
>
> Ellen Granfield
> Seattle
> edgranfield at attbi.com
>
>
>