A western tanager (female) has been photographed at a peanut butter and grape
jelly feeder in the Rolling Woods neighborhood of Williamsburg. The bird was
seen as recently as 3/15, and has been present all winter and was photographed
last winter but remained unidentified until now. This is a different bird than
the male present across town for the last 5-6 years. Three male Baltimore
orioles have been sharing the same feeder. In the same neighborhood, a FOS
green heron was back this morning (3/18), in a good nesting ravine. Turkeys
were gobbling here last week (3/12) but have not started up again since the
cold front hit. Brown thrashers began singing yesterday (3/17) here and all
over town despite the cold. Dan Cristol, Williamsburg
