Subject: [Tweeters] Ash threatened flycatcher!
Date: Tue Jun 9 17:29:48 PDT 2020
From: Robert O'Brien - baro at pdx.edu

Given the habitat, it was most likely a Charred-barred Owl. CBOW.
Bob OBrien Portland

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:38 AM Wayne Weber <contopus at telus.net> wrote:


> Tweeters,

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> Never mind the spell checker. In 1980, shortly after the eruption of Mount

> St. Helens, an Ash-throated Flycatcher showed up near Vancouver, BC. (It

> could well have been displaced by the eruption.) Michael Price quipped that

> we should have called it an ASH-COVERED FLYCATCHER.

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> Then there was the Spotted Owl that showed up out of habitat after the

> massive Biscuit Fire in SW Oregon in 2002. Someone said, "Are you sure it

> wasn't a CHARRED OWL?" (not to be confused with the BARRED OWL).

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> Wayne Weber

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> Delta, BC, Canada

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> contopus at telus.net

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> *From:* Tweeters [mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Dick

> *Sent:* Monday, June 08, 2020 8:20 PM

> *To:* 'Christina'; 'Tweeters'

> *Subject:* Re: [Tweeters] Ash threatened flycatcher!

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> Gotta love our spellcheckers. Ash-threatened? What'd it do -; land on the

> pile of Mt Saint Helens stuff by the Toutle River?

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> *From:* Tweeters <tweeters-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu> *On Behalf

> Of *Christina

> *Sent:* Monday, June 8, 2020 1:20 PM

> *To:* Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Tweeters] Ash threatened flycatcher!

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> Hey all, almost positive on my I'd. Larger flycatcher, long tail, raises

> crest a lot, white belly, gray throat, brown tail, also Russet brown wing

> bar. Glorious Woodinville yard find! Can someone confirm the wing bar?

>

> Oh happy day!

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