Gary and Tweets:

The male Tanager can still be seen from the Skagit Wild Bird Supply on Memorial Hwy. It's a great place with feeders all around and very helpful staff.

Birding is best done from inside where you can move around without flushing the birds and, on a day like today, stay warm and dry!

Thanks for posting this Gary!

Ann Marie Wood
Mountlake Terrace

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> On Feb 23, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Tweeters,
>
> The Western Tanager that was found last week at Skagit Wild Bird Supply was there today, 23rd February 2014. This place is on Memorial Highway, west of Mount Vernon. The feeders had hundreds of birds, mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, with a few American Goldfinches, juncoes, and so forth. As I was watching those birds, the tanager flew in and began foraging on bare earth, always near shrubbery for cover. It stayed near the northwest corner of the building the whole time.
>
> The Western Tanager that I saw on Samish Island on December 1 was a female; today's bird was a male.
>
> It is quite snowy in parts of Skagit County now, although it is patchily distributed. I hope the tanager can survive the storm.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Gary Bletsch
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