That said there are nesting records for Hooded Warbler from Marin (if I remember correctly), Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Co in California. Don't ask me to explain how & why they find each other down there. :-)
Stefan SchlickHillsboro, OR

> From: steppie at nwinfo.net
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:31:02 -0700
> Subject: [Tweeters] Hooded Warbler habitat
>
> Tweetrs,
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> July 7, we made a quick stop on our trip back to Yakima from a long weekend
> in Victoria and walked the lower Cape Horn Trail and heard the heard thw
> HOODED WARBLER singing at 6 pm.
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> I surveyed the forest structure this vagrant has chosen for his quite
> out-of-range territory: a tall forest (conifer here) with a well-developed
> understory component of tall shrubs (elderberry) and small-to-medium height
> trees (mostly vine maple but some hazelnut). The warbler sang, while we were
> there, from the tops of the understory component. From Dunn and Garrett's
> Peterson Field Guide to Warblers (1997. Houghton Mifflin), the species
> account states: "Breeds in both upland and bottomland woodlands, the key
> habitat features being the presence of a well-developed shrubby understory
> beneath extensive mature, shaded forests. Such habitats especially occur
> along streambottoms and ravines..." It appears the Cape Horn Hooded Warbler
> is spot on on its choice of microhabitat. Unfortunately, the nearest
> potential mate may be a couple thousand miles away in easternmost Nebraska,
> according to the map in the warbler guide.
>
> Andy and Ellen Stepniewski
> Wapato WA
> steppie at nwinfo.net
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