[EBB Sightings] western tanager?

Dear Birders:

This lingering heat spell is beginning to acquire a nightmarish quality. 
Each morning for the last two days we look out over the Bay to the fog whose 
cooling influence barely reaches us at 1100' in the Berkeley Hills.

Two evenings ago I retreated to Jewel Lake and its canyon near twilight 
where it was only slightly cooler.  The only bird sound was a few desultory 
fragments of song from a Swainson's thrush along with its diagnostic "round" 
call note.

In the immediate neighborhood a spotted towhee occasionally sings from the 
brush across the way. The only other sound of note is from several scrub jay 
nestlings who greet returning parents with a jumble of peevish sounds. 
Seems late under any circumstances for local birds to still be performing 
such domestic duties and downright cruel in this unrelenting heat.

And to add an unexpected note to this most bizarre of Julys, I heard the 
distinctive double-chip of a western tanager this morning.  Though I'm 
confident about knowing this call familiar each May, I will try to locate 
the bird later.

In the meantime, I keep my birdbaths full, occasionally adding the spray of 
a nearby sprinkler, and watch the chickadees and red-breasted nuthatches 
come tumbling down out of the live oak for a bath.

Phila Rogers