365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Proof Positive - Tanager
Day 223: Got him! Here's proof positive that I have a Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) hanging around the yard. I've had glimpses of him in years past, glimpses and not much more, a flash of yellow and orange zipping past the kitchen window or perched on the far side of the contorted filbert and almost entirely obscured by leaves, unmistakeable for anything else but too elusive for my lens. Yesterday, I just happened to have my hand about three inches away from the camera when he landed on the shepherd's-hook outside the window. By the time I'd picked it up and was ready to snap his picture, he was gone. Surprisingly, he came back a few minutes later, enticed by the suet feeder which at that point was occupied by a different bird. Waiting his turn, he perched on the wind chime and...CLICK!...I had confirmation in the bag. Isn't he a beauty?
Labels:
Piranga ludoviciana,
Western Tanager
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