Subject: [Tweeters] Montlake confounding codes - WTSP & WCSP = White thr
Date: Mar 19 19:07:52 2007
From: Brett Wolfe - m_lincolnii at yahoo.com


Ignore this Matt. You did what you were supposed to and wrote the bird names in your email. And as the reigning King County birding champion, you have to apologize to no one.

The codes told me what I immediately needed to know, and anyone else who is interested in the Montlake Fill woulda read your note and jumped over to the Fill. Cue another 20 emails whining about 4-letter codes in 3, 2, 1....

And if you are interested in what all of the AOU codes are (they are actually quite easy to learn with few exceptions, and far quicker to write if you see a big mixed-species flock), you can get them here: http://www.birdpop.org/DownloadDocuments/Alpha_codes06_Common_Name.pdf

Cheers!

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com

Stewart Wechsler <ecostewart at quidnunc.net> wrote:

You've all heard it from me before, but if I know if no one says something
again others will follow suit and start to do more subject lines in
frustating code, slowing down everyone else's figuring out what their
e-mails are about and whether or not they want to take the time to open
those e-mails. For those who don't use these codes every day WTSP =
Zonotrichia albicaulis and WCSP = Zonotrichia albifrons.

Stewart Wechsler
West Seattle
mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bartels [mailto:mattxyz at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:30 AM
To: Tweeters email list
Subject: [Tweeters] Montlake Fill monday morning - WTSP &
WCSP[pugetensis]


Hi all -
I made a short visit to the Fill this morning before the rain really
started.
Over in the garden by the CUH buildings, a tan-striped White-throated
Sparrow was hanging out in the southeast corner.
Best sign of spring was the pugetensis White-crowned Sparrow song
filling the air -- up until today, I'd only heard gambelii songs.

I didn't see the Cinnamon Teal[s] recently reported, but the ducks &
geese were out in good numbers, including the 6 Greater White-fronted
Geese, hundreds of American Wigeon, & a few Wood Ducks.

Good birding,

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA
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