Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Stanwood House Wren?
Date: Jan 8 19:28:33 2014
From: Vincent Lucas - vincentlucas5 at gmail.com


In 2012, on December 28th to be exact, I was down in Klickitat County
finishing up my Bird-A-Day Year. In a resident?s yard in Trout Lake, I was
viewing his feeders for Pygmy Nuthatches, Mountain Chickadees, White-headed
Woodpeckers, etc. As I was watching the feeders, a wren was working the
nearby shrubbery. Since I had only moved from SW FL a few months prior, I
was immediately alerted to the fact that it was a House Wren, seeing that
in SW FL our only wrens are Carolina and House Wren. I know that bird. I
spoke to the resident who told me that he had been seeing a House Wren in
his yard for several days, thus confirming the sighting. I did not get a
photo unfortunately, but I did tell Klickitat County birding guru Stuart
Johnston as I was staying at the The Columbia River Gorge Hostel aka Bingen
School Hostel where he is the caretaker. I?m confident of this sighting and
ID. Thus, I think House Wren does occur sporadically in Washington in
winter.

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Vincent Lucas
Sequim, WA
vincentlucas5 at gmail.com
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