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Yesterday afternoon at the beaver pond at McLane Creek Nature Trail
(Capitol State Forest, Thurston Co.), I got a good, long look at a
female Common Yellowthroat perched in a Cat-tail - Reed Canarygrass
marsh, and then flying into cover, carrying something the shape of a
short fat worm, or a caterpillar, or an arthropod slumped in her beak.
I then heard some thrashing around in the dry grass.

I've reviewed the current volumes of "Birds of..." for Washington,
Oregon, and British Columbia, plus Birds of North America Online, and
an adult Yellowthroat carrying food to nestlings at this date is very
much outside the window of recorded observations, and seemingly quite
improbable. But that's what I seem to have seen.

Any comments or alternative interpretations?

Thanks, Doug

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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