<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">I've not really commented on WTSP wrt climate change, but I just checked the eBird Trends map for it, which is a winter-only map. <a href="https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/whtspa/trends-map">https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/whtspa/trends-map</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">It shows the typical decreasing in the south/increasing in the north we see with most species. In this case, a clear northward shift of its wintering range. The tiny West Coast population shows increases in winter, which could be due to the habitat issues that Jeff describes. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 6:25 PM Jeff Gilligan <<a href="mailto:jeffgilligan10@gmail.com">jeffgilligan10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I suspect that there are more because of intense logging in NE BC and northern Alberta, which results in brushier habitat rather than dense evergreen forests until the trees come back to sufficient height.<div><br></div><div>I typically get a few in migration at Willapa Bay.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff Gilligan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 3, 2023, at 8:48 PM, Dennis Paulson <<a href="mailto:dennispaulson@comcast.net" target="_blank">dennispaulson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Dennis Paulson</div><div>Seattle<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 3, 2023, at 5:09 PM, J. Acker <<a href="mailto:Owler@sounddsl.com" target="_blank">Owler@sounddsl.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="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;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Hey Tweeters,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span 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!<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">J. 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