Subject: Tacoma tanagers Dennis
Date: May 22 05:45:00 2003
From: Wendy & Alan Roedell - wroedell at mindspring.com


The thought of all those tanagers is dizzying. What species of trees do
they favor in the courtyard? Can you see what they are eating? Thanks,
Alan Roedell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Paulson" <dpaulson at ups.edu>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: Tacoma tanagers again


> Here I am back in Tacoma after a day's absence. The courtyard of the
> building has even more tanagers than it did on Monday. I can't look
> out without seeing one or more flying from tree to tree, sometimes 2
> or 3 at once. I estimate there may be as many as 30-40 in the grove
> of trees that surround this large building. I haven't seen any other
> migrants during intermittent observations. Sex ratio seems about
> even. This is quite an amazing phenomenon. I saw no tanagers at all
> from my yard in Seattle yesterday but did see my first Black-headed
> Grosbeak for the yard this year.
> --
> 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
>