Adult male Summer Tanagers are entirely bright red. Females and immature males are bright yellow-green—yellower on the head and underparts and slightly greener on the back and wings. The bill is pale. Molting immature males can be patchy yellow and red, and won’t become entirely red until their second year. - All About Birds
I photographed this juvenile male in my yard. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/367019669
A huge load of lifers from sikkim :D
Favorites include the green backed tit, rufous woodpecker, verditer flycatcher, forktail, grey winged blackbird, barbet galore, barred owlet, laughingthrush and more :>
Plus I now wield a camera that makes up for my lack of photography skills, so my photos don’t suck for once!
Like this verditer flycatcher:
or dis mid air treepie:
Or this lil hair crested drongo :
I’ve been really busy lately with the California Bird Atlas project. California has never run a state-wide atlas project before but it seems to be going great. If you want to check it out visit https://www.californiabirdatlas.org/
I’m also running my USGS Breeding Bird Survey route this week which is always awesome but draining. 25 miles, 50 three minute point counts, and it must be completed in a total of 5 hours. I’m usually super wiped by the time it is done.
Great pic even if you did over edit it. LOL
That’s an awesome photo omg!
It looks like he has a mohawk!
That is a lot of lifers!
That sounds like important work though!
I had an incredible spring migration! I was so busy I did not have much time to post about it! During a big day I got 4 lifers including an Olive-sided flycatcher which is not all that common around where I was. I also had the most incredible experience with least sandpipers (also a lifer) feeding, preening, and bathing as they made their way down the shore coming quite close to me.
Cedar waxwing
American Redstart
Olive-sided flycatcher (lifer)
Mostly pure Golden wing warbler (I counted this for my lifelist)
Baltimore oriole with nesting material
A Caspian tern with an itch
A Bald eagle with a fish.
Least sandpipers (lifer)
How was everyone’s spring migration in the Northern hemisphere?
Definitely. I did a lot of atlass coverage this weekend. My county only had 5 blocks out of 106 that didn’t have a single checklist yet. I cleaned them all up this weekend so Sacramento County is the first county in California to have data is 100% of our blocks. Now time to increase the coverage of many areas.
