Hello Tweets and Dennis,

I had a similar thing happen with a half dozen Black-headed and four or
five Evening Grosbeaks passing through my yard in Magnolia for a few hours
last weekend.

Paul

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Hello, tweets.
>
> I was just treated to the sight of a movement of Black-headed Grosbeaks
> (at least 8) and Western Tanagers (2) through the yard. The back yard was
> full of birds for 5 minutes or so, then I could see them moving on to the
> next yard. All were probably first-year birds. There are still 3 grosbeaks
> at one feeder, and I suspect there were probably a lot more than 8. Very
> cool, but not a hint of any other species. Do they travel in packs? Every
> fall we have small numbers of the grosbeaks come through, and as they are
> all young birds, it?s not that they remember being here from the previous
> year. Yet they don?t breed in our neighborhood any more.
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> Dennis Paulson
> 1724 NE 98 St.
> Seattle, WA 98115
> 206-528-1382
> dennispaulson at comcast.net
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