Chet Meyers writes: This morning at 10:45 a.m. while looking unsuccessfully for the White-eyed Vireo at the Bass Ponds, I heard an unfamiliar ratchity call note from a bird flying about in the undergrowth. Turned out it was a summer tanager that looked very much like the "first spring" male in the National Geographic bird guide. A combination of yellow, green and red, with more red on it than the female in the Sibley Guide. It was observed between markers 4 and 5 in the same area the vireo was seen yesterday. I observed it for a good fifteen minutes as it worked back and forth along the hillside. Then I went back to my car and played the Stokes tape to confirm the call-note. Chet Meyers, Hennepin County
