Subject: [Tweeters] MYSTERY Bird at Wallace Swamp Creek Park
Date: Mar 28 14:27:34 2006
From: Linda Phillips - sweetmem at juno.com


Hi Tweeters,
I know this is going to be hard but since I've received such great help
improving my birding skills in the past from TWEETERS, I tend to believe
someone out there will have an answer for me.
this morning 7:30 AM 3/28/06 in a light drizzle I hear a new song. I
managed to find it's source. High, 60' in an alder tree was a slender
bird silhouetted against the gray sky, so I couldn't see any details He
was smaller than the Robin that was in the same tree( about 3/4 the
size). His tail was slightly forked. He sang loud and over and over for
the 10 minutes I watched him and he was still at it when I left him. I
came home and listened all the way through my Bird songs of Washington CD
, twice. I did not recognize any of the birds on the CD as what I had
heard at the park.
If it was a migrant on his way further north would he sing like that? It
seemed he was declaring his territory. The only thing I heard that even
came close was Warbling Vireo. Could they be here already?
Any guesses?
Linda Phillips
sweetmem at juno.com
Kenmore 98028-2616