<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The same thing happened in our yard in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle. Last winter we had two White-throated Sparrows through the winter, from 3 November-12 April. This winter the first one we saw was on 5 November, then a second one a few days later, then on 27 November, Scott Ramos and I saw THREE birds at the same time. Subsequently I haven’t seen more than two at a time, but they were both still here two days ago, a very bright white-striped and a much duller tan-striped that didn’t look much brighter than an immature. And at least one of them just started to sing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prior to last winter, I had seen a total of 5 White-throated Sparrows in our yard in 30 years, all in migration: 7-8 Oct 1995, 6 May 2002, 22-24 Sep 2010, and 5-8 Oct 2020. Of course I realize that two of the birds this winter could well be the same birds that stayed here last winter, but in any case, there has been a real change in the status of this species right here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are they wintering farther north because of climate change, as Steve Hampton has documented (notwithstanding that it snowed a bit this morning!)? Or are a larger number of them coming down the Pacific coast than used to be the case?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2023, at 5:09 PM, J. Acker <<a href="mailto:Owler@sounddsl.com" class="">Owler@sounddsl.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Hey Tweeters,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Its that time of year again. I am hearing “Old Sam Peabody” and I know that means that the White-throated sparrows that have been in the neighborhood for the winter will be leaving very soon. I will miss them. The first arrived at the feeder in early October and the second in mid-January. Both were tan morphs at the time, but have since seemingly molted. One still looks like a tan morph, though the white is brighter but it looks rather ragged, as if it just took a bath. The second now has bright yellow lores and bright white eye stripes, though the median crown still appears tan. Safe travels!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">J. 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