Greetings Tweeters,

I'd have to second Bryan's observations. I have never seen more that three or four at one time, and probably only a dozen or two all season here prior to this year. Has someone out there been keeping counts?

-Rolan

Bryan Owens <obryan214 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
On friday I was down at Titlow Park and saw the most I've seen anywhere in one day. Their was about 2 dozen. In the past I may have seen a few dozen in a year. Maybe their migration patterns changed or their was an unusually amount of hatchlings survive last year.

Bryan Owens
Tacoma Wa.
obryan214 at yahoo.com

Bill Clemons <willclemons at yahoo.com> wrote: OBOLers and Tweets,

A quick read of Only the Sunday May 11 posts to OBOL and Tweeters clearly indicates that a lot of folks out there are seeing a lot of WESTERN TANAGERS. It is highly likely that others saw, but did not post, and also that there were many TANAGER flocks that were not seen.

A) Sunday on Mt Tabor, Em Scattaregia and her twins, Adrian and Christopher Hinkle reported 100+.

B) Sunday on Rowena Plateau, Mike Pike reported 40+

C) Sunday in Jackson County, Jim & Karan Fairchild reported "numerous"

D) Sunday on U of O campus, Khanh Tran reported 100+

E) Sunday at Ridgefield NWR, Al Larrabee and I reported 40+

F) Sunday in Everett, Jeff Gibson reported a "tree full".

G) Several other birders reporting handfuls, several, loads, etc.

QUESTIONS:

1) How does this influx compare to those witnessed in the past?

2) How frequently does an influx like this occur?

Thanks,

Bill Clemons
SW of Portland in Mtn Park
Willclemons AT Yahoo dot com



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