[EBB Sightings] tanagers across the state

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From: Phila Rogers 
To: "audubon mt.diablo" 
Subject: [EBB Sightings] tanagers across the state
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:05:33 -0700 (PDT)



Dear Birding Friends:

I spent the weekend at the Dardenelles at 6,000 feet along Sonora Pass.
  Resident and summer breeders have arrived and are setting up
housekeeping. The three sing-alikes are all chorusing -- Black-headed
Grosbeaks, American Robins, and the Western Tanager.  When I left
Berkeley last Friday, migrant tanagers were still in the trees both
calling and singing. When I stepped out of the car near Sonora in the
Sierra foothills, I heard them again.  Within a few days, these
migrants should be arriving in the higher mountains.

Though this is a worrisome dry year, especially in the Sierra, I
rejoice in this annual opportunity to extend spring by spending time in
the mountains where the meadows are just turning green, willows and
mountain alder are freshly leafed out, and the aspens stand in a tender
green haze of new leaves.  Bird song is at or near its peak.  Robins
sing from one end of the long meadow to the other.  And the sweet piney
wind sets the forest to sighing.

Phila Rogers




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