Hello Everyone,

I have been gone a lot lately and it totally skipped
my mind until I just now read this post, but I had a
male Wilson's Warbler at the Woodland Park Zoo on
Sunday afternoon, near that Great-Gray Owl cages.
Observed it for about a minute. I didn't get home
that night until nearly one and I was gone all day
Monday and yesterday.

Michael Dossett
Bothell, WA
phainopepla at yahoo.com


--- Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Hello Tweets,
>
> This afternoon my mother and I birded a few hours in
> eastern Grays Harbor
> Co. with improving weather conditions, but a few
> lingering showers remained
> around the Satsop area. Our main highlights were the
> immature HARRIS'
> SPARROW near Satsop(previously found and reported by
> Betty Jones and others
> on the Satsop CBC on the 29th). We looked shortly
> yesterday on the 1st, but
> weather limited our visit during the late morning
> for this bird. We
> relocated it this afternoon on our 2nd attempt, as
> well as photographed it
> for documentation from 2:15pm-2:50pm along West
> Moore Road. The bird was
> found solely by itself during our entire visit, with
> relatively good numbers
> of other sparrows and House Finch flocks nearby in
> brambles on the south
> side of the road, but initially the bird was found
> foraging in a berry bush
> on the north side of the road 2/10 of a mile west of
> the Moore/West Moore
> Rd. junction on West Moore Rd. The bird foraged and
> actively called in the
> berry bush along a small drainage canal for 15
> minutes before flying to the
> south side of the road into thick blackberry
> brambles, and other vegetation,
> where it was continuously heard calling until we
> left the location at
> 2:50pm. This is presumably the exact same location
> where it was found on the
> Satsop CBC, but it was initially found amongst other
> sparrows, so it can be
> found by itself too away from the main sparrow
> flocks at the crest of the
> first hill and where a yellow cattle crossing sign
> is marked on West Moore
> Rd.. This record is our first personal record for WA
> this far west, making
> it one a very few records for Grays Harbor Co. With
> future attempts this
> bird should remain through the winter with
> appropriate winter sparrow
> habitat.
>
> Our other highlight of the day was a WILSON'S
> WARBLER at 1:35pm in a small
> woodlot along Pioneer Road west of the Montesano
> city limits and 10th Street
> on the private property of Silvia Creek
> Construction Inc. and Roto Tilling,
> which can be well viewed from the main road. This
> individual was also
> previously found on the Satsop CBC on the 29th by
> Chris Chappell, so perhaps
> it will remain with minimal effort amongst other
> songbirds. It was found
> within minutes of our arrival, then was joined by an
> Orange-crowned Warbler,
> then a male Townsend's Warbler, which made a four
> warbler day, which is good
> in January. The bird foraged along a woodlot just
> north of the entrance of
> the construction company foraging relatively high in
> a few Red Alders with
> ivy growing amongst them. Several Ruby-crowned
> Kinglets were also present in
> the same vicinity, as we "pished" for increased
> songbird activity. This is
> our first personal winter record for this species,
> making it a good start
> for 2002.
>
> Our additional species highlight list follows at
> selected locations and
> times:
>
> Satsop/West Moore, Moore Rd., and Monte-Elma Rd.(two
> visits) 12pm-12:30pm,
> 2:15pm-2:50pm
>
> 23 Mourning Doves
> 2 Varied Thrushes
> 14 "Sooty"Fox Sparrows
> 38 Golden-crowned Sparrows
> 21 White-crowned Sparrows
> 1 HARRIS' SPARROW
> 22 Evening Grosbeaks
>
> Brady Loop Rd. 12:40pm-1:20pm,2pm
>
> 1 Rough-legged Hawk
> 27 Black-bellied Plovers
> 1 Greater Yellowlegs
> 1 Hairy Woodpecker
> 3 Western Scrub Jays
> 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers
> 13 Evening Grosbeaks
>
> Pioneer Road/west of Montesano 1:30pm-1:48pm
>
> 1 Orange-crowned Warbler
> 1 Townsend's Warbler
> 1 WILSON'S WARBLER
>
> Hwy.12 between MP 19 and 20(west bound,north side in
> flooded fields) 3:05pm
>
> 3 Tundra Swans
> 3 Western Sandpipers
> 37 Dunlin
> 16 Mew Gulls
> 1 first-year Ring-billed Gull
> 1 first-year California Gull
> 1 adult Herring Gull
> 3 first-year Thayer's Gulls
> 1 subadult Western Gull
> 18 Glacous-winged Gulls
> 3+ Glaucous-winged/Western("Olympic")Gulls
>
> Vance Creek County Park/Wenzel Slough Rd.
> 3:15pm-3:35pm
>
> 27 Tundra Swans
> 1 male Eurasian Wigeon
> 12 Canvasbacks(5 males, 7 females)
> 220+ Ring-necked Ducks
> 17 Greater Scaup
> 56 Lesser Scaup
> 2 Common Snipe
>
>
> Good birding,
>
> Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
> GODWIT at worldnet.att.net
>
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