Another bird for the life list!

Photo by Terry Sohl

I heard a scarlet tanager giving his signature chip-burr call out by the barn. And there he was, high up in an oak tree. Then he flew right over my head into another tree. What a wonderful treat!

Stunning bird life

I saw him! Yesterday morning, high in the tree canopy, in the early morning sunshine peeking over the hilltop--the elusive scarlet tanager sang in the treetops! Now I'm on the prowl every day, listening and looking. I wish that photo was mine! Unfortunately, he was way too high up in the trees.

Other spottings: two Baltimore orioles, great crested flycatcher hopping about in the maple, and the catbirds have returned.