Quite a few Western Tanagers still in and about my city yard in north Everett. This is seven days in a row that many tanagers have been here - anywhere from 6 to a dozen or more each day. Again , they are still sipping nectar from the English Laurel (Prunus) flowers. For several day of watching tanager fly into and out of the yard , I traced their movement to a half block away- to more blooming laurel. Being broadleaf evergreens like coffee trees maybe the tanagers still feel like they're in a costa rica shade -grown coffee plantation.

The laurel blooms are beginning to fade and the tanagers my not be here to much longer. Aside from just the numbers, I'm amazed at how long they persisted here. Soon this cinderella story will end, and after some midnight all the tanagers will turn into House Finches and Chickadees as usually are here.

This wet morning, along with 10 (or more) tanagers, are many warblers - a few 'audubons, a half dozen orange crowns (singing) and a wave of Wilsons -10 or more, mostly males.

I'm out of town for a few days and likely will miss the last tanager - but who knows.

Jeff Gibson
Tanager Acres (still )
Everett wa.