Mike Mckinstry wrote:

> Sunday I was birding - and toasting - in the heat of the cottonwoods
> and pines
> next to the Yakima R. In one of the cottonwoods, next to the trunk,
> not four
> feet off the ground was a nest of a smaller-than-robin-sized bird that
> had the
> color of a female western tanager. Can anyone help with an ID? (bill
> thicker
> than robin, no eye ring, had faint wing bars)

If it looks like a tanager, why not a tanager?

> She was frantic so I didn't want
> to poke my nose into the nest. There was no male about. The alarm call
> she
> made was like the clicking of a Calif. Quail. Usual suspects were
> also around
> - western wood-pewees, downy woodpeckers, eastern kingbirds, hosts of
> the
> unknown flycatcher. thanks for your suggestions. mck
>
> mikemckinstry
> bothell,wa
> mckco at msn.com


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Jerry Tangren <tangren at wsu.edu>