Subject: [Tweeters] Eastern Kingbird invasion?
Date: Mar 14 20:03:58 2005
From: . - mryakima at gmail.com


Eastern Kingbirds on their typical northern plains migration route
would be encountering daytime high temperatures in the 20s and 30s,
and night time lows in the teens this time of year. That would make
for a significant period of fasting.

Scott R a y
Yakima, WA


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:33:54 -0800, Eugene and Nancy Hunn
<enhunn323 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Stewart et al.,
>
> I would think the date is far more unusual for Eastern Kingbird than the
> west side location. They would be a full two months early. I believe Eastern
> Kingbirds migrate north via the eastern United States, thus arrive here a
> few week later generally than Western Kingbirds, which migrate up through
> the western US.
>
> Gene Hunn
> 18476 47th Pl NE
> Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
> enhunn323 at comcast.net.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
> To: "Inga Holmquist" <ingawh at yahoo.com>; "Tweeters"
> <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 7:10 PM
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Eastern Kingbird invasion?
>
> > While not at all common, Eastern Kingbirds are not very rare in Western
> > Washington. I first saw one in Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle several
> > years
> > ago perched on the top of a lombardy poplar, as they frequently did where
> > I
> > grew up on Long Island, N.Y.. I was surprised at first, but looked it up
> > in
> > Hunn and saw that they were relatively rare on the west side of the
> > Cascades, but have been recorded breeding here. I'm fairly sure I've seen
> > a
> > few others in western WA, though I can't remember when and where right now
> > (may have been the south Sound prairies?).
> >
> > The flowers and butterflies are 2 weeks to 2 months early this year and it
> > wouldn't seem very surprising to me to see an Eastern Kingbird by now this
> > year even though Hunn lists them as starting to appear in mid-May. The
> > telephone wire perch is much more typical than the earlier sighting on a
> > blade of grass or in grass.
> >
> > Stewart Wechsler
> >
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Scott R a y
Yakima, WA
mryakima at gmail dot com