Tweeters,
Sorry that I didn't post about the Indigo Bunting that Kevin Steiner and I found at Emerald Downs yesterday, but when we got home we found that Kathy had done a fine job of describing the location. It was first seen at about 5 pm in a flock of 15 or so finches perching in the large shrub along the stream that Kathy described. We revisited the area today but did not see it. A Lazuli Bunting has been singing in the same area though.

I could use some help in identifying a yard bird with very scant information. This evening I heard an unfamiliar bird call coming from a birch tree. It was a fairly quiet call and consisted of two short, sharp chks (somewhere between a Dark-eyed Junco and a song Sparrow) followed by a buzzy burr. Chk-chk, buurrrr. It called three times several seconds apart. I caught only a momentary glimpse of a greenish-yellow bird with a light colored medium-sized beak gleaning the foliage. It could very well have been a female Western Tanager. Is this a sound that it would make? Neither the Cornell site nor my Stokes cd were any help.

Thanks in advance,
Sandy Daniels, Enumclaw Plateau
Ladyhawk707 AT msn DOT com