[Birdnet] Summer Tanager in Ogden

[Kristin Purdy]

A male SUMMER TANAGER was singing at the entrance gate to Fort Buenaventura 
Park in Ogden, Weber County, this morning. The bird is a first spring male 
and boy-oh-boy, does he look FUNNY with a red hood and all other plumage 
yellowish-green. The bird was singing from the tops of tall cottonwoods 
while hidden in the leafy canopies in several places around the gate; 
however, once he took a perch on a dead cottonwood located 10 feet off the 
northwest end of the bridge over the Weber River (still at the park 
entrance). He sang "fee-WOPE, fee-YOU, fee-WHEAT!" over and over with the 
first several notes clear whistles and the last two rather burry. He sang in 
the area of the entrance for 10-15 minutes before he departed and I didn't 
hear him again. I revisited the spot twice, but today the Boy Scouts are 
doing many service projects in the park and a weedwacker limited bird song 
and the opportunity to sift through the robins and grosbeaks to hear the 
tanager again.

For more information about Fort Buenaventura including directions, launch 
the link below.

Kris

http://www.utahbirds.org/counties/weber/locations.htm#FortBuenaventura