Kathy and Tweeters,
I've been having a somewhat similar experience: six of the last seven
days (not counting today - yet) I've had at least one male W. Tanager
in my back yard; Wed. there were two males and a female.
Kit Dieffenbach
south Seattle
kitd at comcast.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Andrich" <chukarbird at yahoo.com>
To: "tweet" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:37 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Western Tanagers


>
> Hi Tweeters,
>
> This is the best year ever for Western Tanagers for me
> in P. Sound area and it pretty much just began. I saw
> my 1st one here in Wash on Sunday after seeing one in
> California during vacation. I have seen them every
> day since except for Monday. This morning when I was
> putting the garbage out for pick up at home I added
> them to the yard bird list. There were several and
> they were calling then flying off towards Lake
> Meridian. I wished I could have stayed home and
> counted the wave through my yard area. As it was
> three flew off and at least two or three were still
> calling.
>
>
>
>
>
> Kathy
> Roosting in Kent, near Lake Meridian
> (chukarbird at yahoo dot com)
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Be a better friend, newshound, and
> know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
>
>