Hello, tweets.

We heard the first Olive-sided Flycatcher for the year at our house in
Seattle today. Here are the first-heard dates since we've lived here.

16 May 92
15 May 93
17 May 94
26 May 95
13 May 96
11 May 97
8 May 98
19 May 99
16 May 00
9 May 01
28 May 02
21 May 03
16 May 04
15 May 05

That's a fair amount of variation, but the call is so loud and
unmistakable that I think we've usually heard it very soon after
arrival, and we've been in Seattle most Mays. I haven't tried to see if
this correlates with any climate or weather data.

Dennis
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Seattle, WA 98115
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