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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Tweeters,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Cara Borre found a Chestnut-sided Warbler in a woodland near Gig Harbor on June 8. Since then many people have reported this bird on ebird and probably many others have just walked in to see this beautiful warbler. I noticed that people who saw the bird on Sunday, June 18, said that there might be two CSWAs, but couldn’t confirm. With the break in the weather yesterday, Bill and I headed down (from “up” in Edmonds) to see this rarity. We did have the bird fly in and land about 10 feet away from us and almost at eye level, where even I could get some decent shots of the bird. Clearly a breeding-plumaged male. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Later, I posted my CSWA pictures on Facebook’s Western Washington Birder site. David Hartmann, whom I don’t think ebirds, attached his picture of a CSWA that he had taken on Sunday and noted that it probably wasn’t the same bird. I agree, and apparently this bird is a female. I looked at all the pictures that others have posted on ebird and they are all probably the same male bird I saw. David’s is the only one showing a female and on the same day that others thought there might be a male and female. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> So I put my pictures and his picture on Flickr so you can see them. Mine are the first 3 photos. David’s is the 4<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/29258421@N07/albums/72177720309209013">https://www.flickr.com/photos/29258421@N07/albums/72177720309209013</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> BTW someone else filed an ebird report of a female CSWA that he/she saw in Discovery Park a few days ago. I wonder if these songsters are being driven here by the wildfires in Canada. Or maybe we always see this many during June. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Charlotte Byers, Edmonds<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>