W Wash wintering Rock Wrens at the beach:

Very rare. A bird was found by Paulson et al on the Sequim-Dungeness CBC
back in '83 on Protection I., not far from Marrowstone. The Padilla Bay CBC
(on its "big day" of 139 sp.) also had one back in '93, on n. Whidbey I.,
near Cornet Bay if I recall correctly. I'm not certain but there could be
older historic records (1 or 2) in Jewett from dry beach/driftwood habitat
from Puget Sound islands in winter (I vaguely recall an Ediz Hook record,
but that might have been in migration).

There are more records for shore/beach habitat in fall (Sept-Oct mostly), as
from San Juan and King counties, but from other sites as well (but still
quite rare in this season). Of course, there are more records for late
spring and summer in w WA, these birds more often occurring in uplands and
especially montane areas. Skagit County, for example, has four records that
I'm aware of, all June-July and in the remote eastern sections, at middle to
upper elevations.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
email: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

>From: "JATLMM" <JATLMM at msn.com>
>Reply-To: JATLMM at msn.com
>To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: rock wren
>Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:08:28 -0800
>
>What else could it be? Today at Fort Flagler (on Marrowstone Island, on the
>spit leading to Rat Island), my husband and I saw a wren that was not a
>winter wren or a Bewick's wren or a marsh wren. We concluded that it must
>be
>a house wren (which we've never identified), although it didn't really look
>like that either. When we got home we looked in Stoke's, and the bird we
>saw
>could have posed for the rock wren photographed there. Any other sightings
>in West. Wash.?
>
>Janine Anderson
>Seattle, WA
>mail to: JATLMM at msn.com
>


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