[TN-Bird] Wintering Summer Tanager - Knox Co.

A Summer Tanager appeared at a home on the Little River side of Topside 
Peninsula in South Knox County in early January. It was still there as of 
January 
21. The adult male tanager feeds mainly on suet cakes and citrus fruit. The 
people e-mailed photographs to me.
Does anyone know of other winter records of Summer Tanagers in Tennessee?

The Birds of North America account says Summer Tanagers are "casual but 
regular winter occurrences along Atlantic Coast and in s. U.S." There is a 
winter 
record from as far north as s. Canada.

On another note, I had a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher very thoroughly searching 
through the foliage and dead flower heads of a butterfly bush on January 17. It 
was both gleaning and hovering to find what I presume were tiny insects 
stirring 
in the warm sun or else insect eggs. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet fed in the same 
shrub the next day - again when the shrub was bathed in the sunlight.

Marcia Davis
Knoxville, TN


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