Tweeters,

In Lincoln Park this morning, a friend of mine mistakenly referred to the bird whose photo I had shared with her as a Golden-crowned Warbler. And therefore my middle-aged brain sneakily inserted that term into my earlier message to Tweeters in describing my sightings of yesterday - but it was (of course) an ORANGE-crowned Warbler that I saw, not a Golden-crowned one.

I apologize for my sloppiness, and appreciate a Tweeter's tactfully bringing it to my attention. I have corrected my mistake in the appended message below.

Cheers,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle




-----Original Message-----
From: "Tucker, Trileigh"
Sent: May 23, 2011 2:07 PM
To: "tweeters at u.washington.edu"
Subject: [Tweeters] Black-throated Gray Warbler and other recent Lincoln Park birds

Hello Tweets,

I was excited this morning to see my first-ever-in-Lincoln-Park Black-throated Gray Warbler. What a dramatic bird - really stood out among the new green leaves, which was a nice change given that those other yellowish warblers somehow blend right into the background of sunlit fresh leaves.

Yesterday a group of Northern Flickers was chattering loudly at the top of a cedar in the park, but it was only when I got home and opened the photos that I could see them displaying glorious orange and red feathers; they looked almost tropical in their brilliance. I also finally got a pretty good photo yesterday of an Orange-crowned Warbler, and today of the Rufous Hummingbird who's regularly been doing his morning calisthenics in a nicely backlit location in Lincoln Park.

Photos of all are on my Flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/trileigh.

Good birding to all in this lovely season,
Trileigh

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Trileigh Tucker
Lincoln Park, West Seattle