Sorry to be so obsessive about this, and thanks again to everyone who responded to my last request. There were many many votes for a Hutton's Vireo, and a couple of others for either Pacific Slope Flycatcher or Bewick's Wren. I spent a number of hours listening to on-line resources for each of them and just wasn't quite convinced, though the Pacific Slope Flycatcher was kinda close. Kinda....

So, yesterday I sat on my back porch with a camera until the little vocalizer revealed itself (Sorry about the photo quality; my little digital was at max zoom):

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/cmildred/?action=view&current=bird1.jpg

and

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/cmildred/?action=view&current=bird2.jpg

I believe that this is a Western Wood Peewee.

Then I went back to Pritchard Beach and sat there until that little vocalizer revealed itself. Two of them, in fact. I didn't get a photo, but they looked remarkably like the one in my back yard.

The funny thing is that the Western Wood Peewee vocalization on the Cornell website (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Western_Wood-Pewee.html#sound) seems to have three parts, with the final part being the "suweet" I've been hearing. I did hear the little hitch leading into the final "suweet" from one of the Pritchard birds, but have not yet heard the first part of the song anywhere. What's with the truncated songs? These can't all be first year "just learning the song" birds. Or can they?

At any rate, I just like the name. "Western Wood Peewee." Life bird. Yard bird first.

And OK, maybe I need to work on my vocalization descriptions. Any thoughts?

Catherine Alexander
Lakewood Neighborhood
South Seattle