Summary: Common in winter. Uncommon in migration, and Accidental in Summer. Most easily observed in the Channel through most of the winter.

	Spring	Summer	Fall	Winter
Sitka Road System	Uncommon	Accidental	Uncommon	Fairly Common
Sitka Area*	Fairly Common	Accidental	Uncommon	Fairly Common
*Unless otherwise noted, occurrence in the Sitka Area is unknown or presumed similar to that on the road system

J Dan Webster
Common winter visitant; dates from early November (Willett 1914) to 24 May, when Hanson and I saw a flock in 1985. The J. and J. W. Mailliard catalog lists a specimen collected at Sitka in July 1896, but I found that it was a Harlequin, misidentified (CAS).