Hi all,

There is a large movement of W Tanagers through the campus right now--Im at lunch, well into the double digits for a count. Males, females, singing, ahhhh.

Most along the cut but a big fir on wide lawn above the cut held about 8 Tanagers at one time. Sweeeet:)

Kathy
Kathy Andrich
chukarbird yahoo

On Tue May 17th, 2011 9:22 AM PDT Blair Bernson wrote:

>Often the low spot of my day is being stuck in traffic trying to get across the Montlake Bridge and onto 520 West to get to work downtown. It is particularly maddening because the major hangup is the traffic backed up onto Montlake Boulevard in the backup getting onto 520 E heading off to "the Eastside". I have no right to gripe but this particular bottleneck just gets to me sometimes. SOOOOO what a treat today as just as I hit the Montlake Bridge a brilliant flash of red, yellow, and black flew right in front of me and dove into some foliage to the East. Forgot all about the traffic and just enjoyed one of nature's best gifts - a resplendent male tanager in full glory. Just one of the reasons we love birds. Just like remembering to stop to smell the roses, appreciate the beauty around us.