A similar bird (or the same one?) came to our feeder in Blaine at the height of that late January snowstorm. Glad the little guy's still headed south.

At 09:44 AM 2/12/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Just now David Adams brought in to me a photograph he took at his feeder on
>Marine View Drive, in northeast Tacoma, on Sunday, 2 Feb 2002. It is an
>adult male Western Tanager in basic plumage (no red on the head).
>
>Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
>Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
>University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
>1500 N. Warner, #1088
>Tacoma, WA 98416-1088
>http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/museum.html

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine, WA