This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.
This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.

Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)

Summer Tanager

(Piranga rubra)

Description:

This 1st year male bird was quite assertive and stood his ground at the food offered and even ran off mature males. Tanagers started trickling in last week, but today there were so many more on site. This weekend provided the “perfect storm” for a warbler fallout on South Padre Island; a cold north wind, rain, and a ton of birds trying to head north.

Date Taken: 2021:04:17 15:13

Location:

Convention Center
South Padre Island, Texas
United States
9.84 ft above sea level

Camera Information:

NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/250

File Name: SummerTanager_D5X7512-SPI_ConventionCtr

© 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com

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