I agree with the other 2 responses so far: Townsend's Warbler. Although uncommon this time of year, we even got one on the UW campus for the Seattle CBC. Check this link and see if that is the bird you saw.
http://greennature.com/article937.html
Brett A. Wolfe gismybabe at yahoo.com Seattle, WA
JLScott53 at aol.com wrote:At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I'm hoping someone can tell me what bird I saw this morning. I should tell you that I'm not really an active birder, more of a, let's say, proprietress of a bird bed-and-breakfast: most of the birds I see are from my kitchen window. Luckily, I live in a place where I get a diverse mix of guests. So anyway, this morning I saw a little bird picking at the blueberry suet. It looked like a chickadee at first -- it was more or less that shape and heft -- but when I got closer I noticed it had a yellow head with black stripes. (I know there are a lot of other things about it I was supposed to notice but didn't, mesmerized as I was by its pretty head.) It was very brave -- didn't even fly away when I opened the door to let out the dog. I looked in my Sibley's and decided it must be some kind of warbler. Is that right? I've never seen a warbler of any kind in the wild before, so I feel pretty clueless.

For what it's worth, I live about a half a mile from what was once a beautiful second-growth (?) forest and is now a clearcut wasteland where a new housing development is about to be. We've seen a lot of unusual visitors lately, not, I think, uncoincidentally (including a pileated woodpecker, a Bewick's wren, starlings for the first time, some kind of raptor I couldn't ID, and even a flying squirrel). Any ideas? What should I look for if the bird comes back?

Jennifer Scott
Bainbridge Island
JLScott53 at aol.com


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