Subject: [Tweeters] Fill this morning - no Tennessee Warbler
Date: Aug 20 09:17:15 2009
From: Adam Sedgley - AdamS at seattleaudubon.org


A nice group of people had gathered this morning to search the thicket
of alders for migrating passerines (south of Wahkiakum Lane). From
6:30am to 7:50 am, there was nowhere near the species diversity and
numbers that Connie Sidles had reported yesterday morning. BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE, WARBLING VIREO, and ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD were the most common
foragers in this thicket with a couple ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and
singing BROWN CREEPER.

A consolation was a PURPLE MARTIN calling overhead (between the alder
thicket and the wedding rock) as I walked up to the thicket this morning
around 6:45am.

Typically, my presence thwarts the appearance of chasable birds so I
imagine the Tweeters inbox will light-up with reports of rarities that
showed up sometime after 7:50am. :)

Cheers,
Adam Sedgley
adams at seattleaudubon.org