> A friend and I were at Spencer island yesterday morning. We noticed many
> (~15) western tanager females, black-headed grosbeaks (~15) males and
> females, and evening grosbeaks (~10). We were curious as to the lack of
> male tanagers, and assume they must migrate ahead of the females. This
> number of these bird species seems high to me, does this indicate a kind of
> mini "fallout" or "staging" during migration, or are those numbers typical
> for the area?


I was on Spencer a couple of weeks ago and I saw three Western Tanagers,
all of which were males.