[TN-Bird] summer tanager foraging
- From: "Rikki Hall" <rikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:49:13 -0400 (EDT)
I was just treated to a close-up view of a male summer tanager. He was
right outside the window of my (home) office, on the front porch rail,
giving a throaty "chuck" call, not the multisyllabic, staccato calls I
hear more often.
What was he up to? Eating wasps! I watched him flutter up and grab a
paper wasp off its nest, only to drop it. I think he retrieved it from
the ground, but my view was blocked. Next he fluttered up and came down
with a chunk from an old hornet nest, which he turned over a few times
looking for something edible. He left it on the rail, and I can see where
it came from. It seems to be the beginning layers of a nest that was
started and abandoned. He continued to examine the underside of my porch
roof and made several more lunges at things that caught his interest.
As I was typing this, I saw his mate darting between trees in the yard.
Though summer tanagers have nested in my yard all three years I've lived
here, I rarely hear them sing. I hear calls all the time. The other
morning I happened to be awake around 5:30am and heard him singing. When
I stepped outside, I could just barely hear another male countersinging
from the farm across the road.
Rikki Hall
Rockford, TN
Blount Co.
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