Just after I sent the message about the Western Tanager movement, I
looked out and right in front of my window, in a tall magnolia (I'm
on the third floor) was a female tanager and an immature male
Bullock's Oriole. This is the first of the latter I've ever seen in
Tacoma and perhaps the first that was clearly a migrant.

After I typed this, I saw at least a half-dozen more tanagers, and I
haven't been looking out the window except occasionally. Would that
migrants were passing through every day, it would make birding a lot
more interesting yet!
--
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