Date: 5/19/26 4:12 pm From: Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] migration isn't over
I also had my FOY male Western Tanager at Lake Lorene/ Twin Lakes this
morning. It popped up on a bare branch on top of an alder. Seemed it just
came out of the “shower” shaking all the road dust from traveling off ……
*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
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On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 3:47 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <
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> I just had two first-year male Western Tanagers at our fountain. They
> don’t breed in our Maple Leaf neighborhood, as far as I know, but we see
> them almost every year in migration.
>
> The sound of moving water attracts migrants out of the trees, and I highly
> recommend it for attracting birds that you might not see otherwise. These
> two birds came at the same time, the only ones so far this year, and it
> does make you wonder if two birds of the same species might stick together
> during nocturnal migration. It also could be that these two found each
> other during the day and were just were hanging out together for a while,
> as four eyes are better than two at detecting potential predators. But they
> came together and left together.
>
> The tanagers were scared away by a Band-tailed Pigeon that flew down to
> the fountain, then by an American Robin, but they would come back and
> continue bathing and squabbling. If they were buddies, why fight over a
> pool that was big enough for both? But birds often do defend the little
> space around them against birds of the same species, even when flocking
> together. They spent a total of nine minutes at the fountain, providing all
> the photo ops I could have hoped for.
>
> Dennis Paulson
> Seattle
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