Hello Gene,

Can you email me off line and give me directions as to where you found the Flame colored tanager in Madera? I will be there in a few weels and who knows....the bird might still be hanging around!

thanks

Eric Kowalczyk
aceros at mindspring.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Stagner
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: 4/13/2007 8:55:14 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Re: BT Gray Warblers


Just got back to WA from a trip to AZ where we were fortune into to see the Flame-colored Tanager in Madera Canyon. Quite a sight. So am trying to catch up with tweeters.

I did indeed SEE one Black-Tailed Gray Warbler after about 20 minutes of tramping through the brush and conifers behind my house. While watching it through the binos another warbler was singing some distance away. That one sounded identical to the one I was watching. The other warblers I heard were less distinct and could have been Townsend's since I have several of these also in the back yard forest. The next day I SAW and heard a BTGW across the street in a small conifer while at the same time hearing several other what I assumed to be BTGW in the woods behind my house.

As is the case in many other locations, birds are arriving earlier and possibly leaving earlier. Probably just another indication of GW.



Gene Stagner
retired biologist
USFWS

Tacoma