The White-Crowned Sparrows have been singing for about three weeks in my part of in Kitsap County. Lucky us! That song is my personal harbinger of spring. Yesterday I heard a song variation I hadn't heard before. At the end of the song, where you'd hear the "Me" and the little trill at the end, there were three "me's" and no trill. I'm going to go back to the area where I heard the bird (parking lot of the West Bremerton Safeway, not the quietest area in town) and try to tape it. This individual was counter-singing w/a WCSP who was singing the standard Pugetensis (sp?) song. Good birding, Mary Mary Klein Bremerton WA catbird54 -at- comcast dot net ----- Original Message -----
> The very first thing I heard when I went outside here on the
> waterfront in Olympia yesterday morning was See-Me-Pretty-Pretty-Me
> and I knew Spring had arrived. There were two White Crowns singing
> here and another two at the settling ponds on Hogum Bay Rd in Lacey.
> And no we don't see White Crowns in the winter downtown nor do we see
> Golden Crowns although they are plentiful at Nisqually.
> [snip]
> Ray Holden
> Olympia, WA
> Life is for the birds.
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