I noticed the same phenomenon in Seattle yesterday.
I counted >30 flying overhead while walking my daughter to school, more
than tripling the number of Western Tanagers I've seen in Seattle ever I
suspect.
Mark
On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 13:44, John R. Yearsley <
jyearsle at uw.edu> wrote:
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Where West St goes down the hill and across Squalicum Creek in the
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Columbia District of Bellingham, the woods were full of western tanagers.
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An excited cyclist flying down the hill on his bike claimed there was a
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flock. How he managed that is hard to say, but I counted six. A big day for
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tanagers.
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