[obol] Re: More Eugene Migrants

  • From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:53:05 -0700

On Apr 20, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think I have ever seen 15 Nashvilles in one place in Lane County.  
> I'm not sure I have seen that many in one place anywhere, not even peak of 
> passage at Malheur.
> 
> -- 
> Alan Contreras
> 
> acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Eugene, Oregon


In a recent  conversation with Bellingham, WA birder, Clake Blake, he told me 
that Nashville Warblers are now regular breeders near Bellingham, but that they 
were formerly only scarce transients.  Perhaps the 15 seen in Eugene is related 
to the species increasing its numbers to our north.

Jeff Gilligan




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