Date: 5/10/25 4:15 pm From: John and Claudia M via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] migration this year
Greetings from west Kitsap County! I've had zero Violet-green swallows this year, which is disturbing. Last year I had 3 pair successfully nest in my boxes attached to my home on 2 & ½ acres. Every year for decades I've always had at least one pair use one of my next boxes. I put up four nest boxes on each side of my house that are far apart from each other. Is anyone else missing "their" swallows this year? I keep hoping that at least one pair will show up, but I'm beginning to give up hope. I love ALL of the swallows, but especially the Violet-greens!!
Thanks!
John McDonald,
Bremerton, WA
Lake Symington area
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1. Re: Proposed weakening of Endangered Species Act
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3. Re: Very low migration continued (AMK17 via Tweeters)
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Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 13:02:51 -0700
From: Ted Ryan via Tweeters <tweeters...>
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Proposed weakening of Endangered Species Act
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I think politics is precisely the problem. The ESA process is itself political. Biologists (federal and state) and fish and game departments are often well down the list of influencers in the process despite them knowing the most about particular species. You don't need to look further than grizzly bear recovery in the Mountain West states. Montana and Wyoming were denied their petition to reclassify grizzlies in their state. The bears had met recovery objectives under the ESA listing. Very vocal and influential groups have made it impossible for the ESA process to work as it should out of fear they will be hunted. There a many other species that have met recovering objectives but remain listed.
The amount of money and resources that is spent fighting to keep recovered species on the list is a shame. There are species in real trouble that could use those resources. The charismatic mega fauna that have met objectives get all the attention and meanwhile the Vaquita (porpoise) is about to disappear from the face of the earth. The process is broken.
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 13:47:40 -0700
From: Thomas M Leschine via Tweeters <tweeters...>
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Subject: [Tweeters] Pretty big migration day
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Hello, Tweets,
This morning early I was treated to a small burst of migrants passing through the treetops just outside my West Queen Anne windows, in Seattle. Roughly between the hours of 6:30 - 8:30 am I saw at least a dozen Warbling Vireos, 1 or 2 Black-throated Gray Warblers, 1-2 Orange-crowned Warblers and a Western Flycatcher that spent a little time actually fly catching. This after several successive mornings with no migrants spotted at all. I live on the 4th floor so this was largely a mid-level to treetops display in maples that have just about fully leafed out.
A few weeks back there were several days with many Yellow-rumped Warblers, all Audubon?s, with mostly males pushing through a few days before the birds passing through seemed mostly female. Some Orange-crowned and an earlier Black-throated Gray then as well and on May 1 I had a Nashville Warbler sitting on a branch just off the edge of the roofline.
Still awaiting Wilson?s Warblers which in some years have been fairly numerous. And if really lucky there might be a few days with Western Tanagers passing through. I haven?t been counting but feel like this has been the most ever springtime YRWAs moving past my windows.
Tom Leschine
Seattle
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 13:57:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Very low migration continued
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Warbling vireos to day in Phinney!
Akopitov
Seattle
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Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Very low migration continued
Reports in CA suggested a 2 week delay there… flycatchers just arriving in Monterey Bay Area…
AKopitov
Seattle
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On May 8, 2025, at 12:23?PM, BRAD Liljequist via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
Just responding to AKopitov's post...
I have had a very similar experience...one Wilson's next door, Chipping Sparrows in Woodland Park, a nice mix of Audubon's Yellow Rumped around Green Lake, a bunch of Purple Finches in Discovery Park...but so far a very light migration...
