Subject: [Tweeters] Black-throated Blue Warbler question
Date: Apr 10 00:27:34 2015
From: Mike Clarke - transvolcanic at gmail.com


Matt and all,

One might presume that this year's bird over-wintered. "Early"
Black-throated Blues are essentially unheard of beyond the desert southwest
and the gulf coast in the east during the month of March. By mid-April
however, they are arriving in full force on their breeding grounds in the
high Appalachians of Tennessee and North Carolina.

Mike Clarke
Pullman

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matt Bartels <mattxyz at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Thanks Josh for the pointer -- that's the place to look for accepted WBRC
> records -- If you are looking for a bit more info on the records listed on
> the spreadsheet at that link, all previous WBRC formal reports are online
> at the wos website as well at http://wos.org/wbrcreports.html
>
> Regarding Black-throated Blue Warblers -- 11 previous records have been
> accepted in the state, 6 on the west side and 5 on the east side. Most of
> the records come from late fall migration or winter:
> 1 in late September
> 3 arrived in October
> 4 were first found in November
> 1 in December [the recent record also was first seen in December]
> The two outliers:
> 1 record was found in Olympia in March [maybe a bird that overwintered
> nearby but was not found until then?]
> and
> 1 in 2012 in June - presumably our only record of a northbound migrant.
>
> 9 of the 11 earlier records have been of males, perhaps a sign of their
> relative ease of identification.
>
> 4 of the records prior to the recent one were seen for more than one or
> two days, and the most recent of those was in 2007 in Walla Walla County --
> as Josh said, it has been a while since we've had a cooperative
> Black-throated Blue in the state like this current one.
>
> Best,
> Matt Bartels
> Secretary, WBRC
> Seattle WA
>
> On Apr 9, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Josh Adams wrote:
>
> Hello Darwin,
> The Washington Bird Records Committee keeps a list of "accepted" reports
> on their section of the WOS site:
>
> http://wos.org/wbrcsummaries.html
>
> According to their list this will be the 12th record for the state,
> pending acceptance (which seems almost certain). My general impression is
> that rare warblers don't typically stick around very often, so a chasable
> rarity such as this one is/was a big treat.
>
> Josh Adams
> Lynnwood, WA
>
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