Subject: [Tweeters] Nashville Warblers
Date: May 7 15:24:56 2011
From: Brien Meilleur - brienm at live.com



Hey Tweets and Wayne,
Wayne states that the status of Nashville Warblers in the Vancouver B.C. area "has changed little over the years"...that he averages about 1 or 2 per spring. My impression is this may not quite be true for Western Washington, and particularly for the Seattle area...as my sense is that spring sightings have increased substantially and continually over at least the last several years. Perhaps Brad W., Gene H. or someone keeping historical data on Nashville sightings could confirm this impression, or not. I personally did not record a Nashville Warbler in Western Washington before 2007...and since then they seem to be reported with increasingly regularity in the Seattle area. Without specifically consulting tweeters reports, my sense is that this spring perhaps as many as a dozen have already been reported. I saw one this morning in Magnuson Park but did not report it because I've come to believe that Nashvilles are just no longer rare or uncommon in Western Washington as they once were.
Brien Meilleur
Lake Forest Park, WA
brienm at live.com

> From: contopus at telus.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Nashville Warblers
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 14:41:40 -0700
>
> Fred and Tweeters,
>
> I can't speak for other birders, but almost every Nashville Warbler I have
> found in spring migration around Vancouver, BC (where they are about as rare
> as they are in most of western WA) has been detected by song. I have
> averaged about 1 or 2 Nashvilles per spring, going back to the late 1960s;
> their status has changed little over the years.
>
> Interestingly, Nashvilles are about as rare in fall migration as in spring
> around Vancouver-- a total of about 3 to 6 records each migration season.
> However, I have NEVER personally recorded one here in fall! I guess that's
> because they don't sing in fall, and I am not good at picking out Nashvilles
> visually from the other nondescript yellowish fall warblers. I've always
> been far better at auditory identification of birds than visual
> identification; my hearing is good, but my eyesight is not so good.
>
> So I guess it varies among different birders just how they find these
> migrant Nashvilles, but I think it would be fair to say that in spring, a
> good percentage of them are picked out by song (which to me is quite
> distinctive.)
>
> Wayne C. Weber
> Delta, BC
> contopus at telus.net
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
> [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Sharpe
> Sent: May-06-11 8:59 PM
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: [Tweeters] Nashville Warblers
>
> The migrant Nashville warblers being found west of the Cascades
> are they detected by song?
>
> fred sharpe
> port angeles
>
>
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