Our White-crowned Sparrow is on her second clutch while the male has the offspring from the first around as well.
They are in the back yard and have been joined by several broods of House Sparrows and House Finches the past few days.
We currently have a second brood for the resident Anna's visiting the feeder and blooms (the youngsters are a hoot to watch as they check out everything that moves....), also arguing with the first Rufous Hummingbird brood.
Seeing a fair number of newly fledged Starlings around too.
Not a big sample, but to me our yard (Crown Hill north of Ballard) looks normal.
Hoping to see fledged Rufous-sided Towhees any day now.

Martin Muller, Seattle
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Sandelin<mailto:floriferous at msn.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu<mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:36 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Nesting failures


I have had coopers hawks, violet green swallows, and a pacific slope
flycatcher all abandon nesting in the last 3 weeks. I am wondering if this
is local or a region wide response to the colder than usual spring? I have
seen fledgling towhees, juncos, winter wrens and song sparrows this week so
the residents who started early seem to be coping.

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
Snohomish County, WA