Date: 5/20/26 9:15 pm From: Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] migration isn't over
The Houston Audubon Society has a couple of water drips at Boy Scout Woods
in High Island, Texas. They actually have bleachers at the drip by the
entrance. It is a great place to just sit and wait to see what shows up !
*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
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On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM Philomena O'Neill <
<philomenaoneill...> wrote:
> I think you are right Dennis, moving water does seem to attract migrants.
> We have a recirculating stream we installed in the yard and it attracts
> migrant birds every year. A few days ago we had five Western Tanagers, a
> Yellow Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler and a Swainson’s Thrush all bathing
> along the stream.
>
> Philomena
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 19, 2026, at 4:02 PM, Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <
> <tweeters...> wrote:
>
>
> 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 <
> <tweeters...> wrote:
>
>> 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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