Subject: Seahurst Park Migrants and Hangers-on
Date: May 13 11:44:24 2002
From: Maureen Ellis - me2 at u.washington.edu
Folks,
Saturday, amongst all the expected spring birds.....Hutton's Vireo,
Orange-crowned, Townsend's, Wilson's, Yellow and Yellow-rumped (Audubon's)
Warblers, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Swainson's
Thrush......there are Varied Thrushes still here, both heard and seen.
Seahurst Park is in west Burien south of West Seattle/White Center; it is
a large forested park directly on the Puget Sound shores. I haven't been
able to establish whether Varied Thrushes actually nest in Seahurst Park.
Does anyone have information about the nesting patterns of Varied
Thrushes in King County and in the coastal Parks of the east shores
of the Puget Sound? I have the entire set of Bent's Life Histories, but
bird populations can certainly change within a few decades and across a
century.
Thanks and cheers, me2
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Maureen Ellis, PhD, Research Scientist
Toxicology Group at Roos 1, 284A
Lab/Office phone: 206-685-1938
Dept of Environmental Health, Mailstop 354695
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
E-Mail: me2 at u.washington.edu
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