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?
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