Just passing along a recent report I received from Scott Gremel, head
of the Spotted Owl crew for Olympic National Park and former bird
researcher from the eastern U.S.:

Scott reports that he found an adult male Chestnut-sided Warbler
singing near Port Angeles on July 6, 2007. The bird was on private
land, so access for the public is unfortunately not possible. Scott
says: "It continued to sing for the 2 hours I was in the area, and I
watched it with binoculars for maybe 15 minutes, foraging in a
bigleaf maple in a brushy clearing. I was clearly able to see the
yellow cap, white wingbars, white earpatch with black outlined face,
and chestnut markings on either side of the white breast. Please
please please to meetcha!"

Scott has also been surveying the Griff Peak burn site in ONP for the
last four breeding seasons. Griff Peak is north of Hurricane Hill
(the westernmost point of Hurricane Ridge), where a pretty hot
lightening fire burned for several weeks in September and October
2003. Of greatest interest, this year Scott found one Three-toed
Woodpecker, 3 - 5 pairs of Western Bluebirds, and a House Wren still
at the area at 4700 feet. In past years Three-toeds and Black-backed
Woodpeckers have been at the site, so amazingly these wanderers find
some isolated burns even out here on the Olympic Peninsula.

Bob Boekelheide
Sequim