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New Feeder Bird- Scarlet Tanager, yard stuff
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: New Feeder Bird- Scarlet Tanager, yard stuff
- From: Psbmt@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:56:34 EDT
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Fri. afternoon, @6:00 PM, I saw a Tanager sitting on the baffle by the
hanging suet cage. I've had Summer Tanagers fairly regularly on the suet,
but thought I saw dark wings, so got out binocs and saw a first male Scarlet
Tanager (maybe...see below), who was now on the wire cage eating suet. I've
never had either Tanager as feeder birds till this year.
The first thing I noticed was that he was much more orange in color than the
adult male that's in the yard. Got to view him from underneath as he clung
to the cage, and he had some yellow mottling.
While writing this I looked in my Sibley and other guides to read
descriptions of plumages. Sibley and Peterson both show an orange variant of
a male Scarlet Tanager, so now I'm not sure what this guy was, first spring
or Orange variant....
By the way, one of the female Summer Tanagers that I desribed in an earlier
post is definetly a red morph female, she's seen regularly. She's the first
reddish female that I've ever seen, that's why I'm mentioning her.
Bluebirds are nesting in nestbox for the 2nd time this season, 4 eggs this
time, last time were 5, and no Cowbird eggs, though have @ 5 Cowbirds this
year.
Lastly, an almost-feeder bird: a Great-crested Flycatcher perched on the
feeder pole and proceeded to flycatch from it for awhile. Was very
aggressive towards the other birds.
Shelley Theye
Shelley Theye
North Chatham County, NC
Psbmt@aol.com