Hi Tweets,

I hadn't heard an Olive-sided Flycatcher this spring and I'd read the
wintering areas for this species are beset by logging and other pressures.
So I was about to send out a query to ask if anyone had seen them this
spring. After I saw Lynn's posting I went outside and heard one in the
distance northwest of my home in West Seattle. My first sighting/hearing
records from past years are almost all from the last week of May or the
first week of June, so they have arrived in the Seattle area just about on
schedule.

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.webster at comcast.net

---- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Schulz" <linusq at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Tweets" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: DesMoines Birds


> Hi Tweets:
> Interesting birds in my DesMoines neighborhood and down the street in
> the woods today. There is a
> Olive-sided Flycatcher singing "Quick, Three Beers" from the top of
> the fir trees on my street. As you approach the woods, there are a
> pair of Red-breasted Sapsuckers going to a hole in a dead snag. In
> the woods of DesMoines Creek Park we now have a family of 4 Barred
> Owls: 2 adults, and 2 juveniles. Near the Barred Owls but at the edge
> of the woods is a singing Cassin's Vireo. We saw and heard two of
> those
> birds about 2 1/2 weeks ago. At that time, I thought they were
> migrants, but now at
> least one of them has stuck around. The song sounds like a question
> and answer. I have hope for breeding Cassin's Vireos. That would be
> really special. We also saw and heard Black-throated Gray Warblers,
> and Orange-crowned Warblers today. We heard a Warbling Vireo, and
> heard
> several singing Swainson's Thrushes.
> Yours, Carol Schulz
> DesMoines, WA
> mailto:linusq at att.net
>
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