It sound like you closely observered this bird. If I
were to chase it, can you give me details that I could
use to distinguish it from a Western Tanager female or
or immature?

> At 6:00
> PM, Harold & Karen Cottet, Garrett MacDonald, and I
> saw the female ORCHARD ORIOLE fly up into an
> elderberry tree past the footbridge. We had very nice
> views of the oriole as it worked the trailside thicket
> from the footbridge all the way out to the beach.
> After that point, we lost the bird and could not
> relocate it.

--
Mike Patterson
Astoria, OR
celata at pacifier.com

Common species are more common than rare species
--- Dennis Paulson in
_Shorebirds of the PNW_