A few pictures I took of Western Tanagers at Fernhill Wetlands on May 14th. It was easily the most I had seen at one time and perhaps the most I had ever seen. The numbers of Western Tanagers were up considerably this spring migration based on my own observations and the postings on birding server lists in the area. I'm not sure why, but it sure was fun.
Since I posted a female Western Tanager yesterday I thought I would post images of males today. Neither image is very good, but they are good enough to clearly identify the birds.
I saw this bird along the central service road at TRNWR. I hadn't a clue as to what is was, however a Red-winged Blackbird was sitting in an adjacent tree to where this bird was sitting allowing me to know that it was comparable in size. I was able to get six pictures of it before it flew off. Unfortunately, it was a gloomy day and the bird was a fair distance away so the pictures where not the best, but still plenty good enough for identifying. But when I loaded the images onto my computer and started paging through my field guide and searching on the web, I came up empty. In fact, I gave up on it and its been sitting on my computer in a folder named "????" since May 31.
