I don't know if it is the same bird, but we are on Day 3 with our first White-throated Sparrow of the year. We always see the tan-striped. We are up and over the hill from you in the Gatewood area of West Seattle. Sometimes it stays in the area for a month or so in winter, but this is the earlier than usual. It seems to travel an east-west corridor, and misses our neighbor's yard merely a block away.



Janeanne Houston

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I found a first of season tan striped White-throated Sparrow out in the yard this morning in West Seattle. Also, fos for the yard this morning was a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. A Fox Sparrow was singing but it's been back for a few weeks with the Golden-crowned Sparrows.



Ed

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