I was on the Spit this afternoon trying out a new pair of binoculars. Since the wind was stiff, most of the birds were down low in thick brush, but the tanager, a resplendent male, was feeding in a tree 10 feet off the ground with several White-crowned Sparrows. They were about midway down the line of trees that runs west from the Wet Woods almost to Unwin Ave.
Other birds of interest included Least Flycatchers, a Lincoln's Sparrow, Rough-winged Swallows, Baltimore Orioles, one Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a Wood Thrush. The only warblers I could find were Yellow, Yellow-rumped, and Blackburnian.
I watched one of the orioles eat a wasp, which was an involved production. He held the bug in the middle of his bill so that the ends stuck out either side, then somehow passed it back and forth over and over again, like a person eating corn on the cob but without the benefit of anything to steady the morsel on either end. Only when he'd completely flattened the wasp from one end to the other did he turn it around and swallow it headfirst.
