This dude stopped by ❣️

[LakeArenal]

[MontanaMama]

1. Scarlet Tanager?

[LakeArenal]

2. Yes.

Also you are correct. Tanager.
Not Tananger.

[MontanaMama]

3. I'm envious...they're so beautiful.

We get a Western Tanagers through here but not the Scarlets. I have a plum tree that bursts with fruit every summer. There is only a small window when I can pick the fruit while it is ripe...if I delay picking by even a few days, the Western Tanagers will come in and strip the entire tree in a day which is a spectacular sight in itself. If they miss a few plums, a bear will always come behind the birds to clean up any leftovers...maybe they leave the scent of ripe plums behind them? My neighbors report the same thing...Bears follow the Tanagers.

[LakeArenal]

4. Not here thank goodness.

We’ve only had a couple black bears pass through in our 35 years here.

Each one left a path of destruction for a country mile through our yards.

[LakeArenal]

5. FWIW

My husband just told me the Tanager is a member of the cardinal family.

[MontanaMama]

6. I didn't know that.

Now I do. I was just down in Missouri for a work trip and I admired their beautiful cardinals. They were everywhere around our hotel. Let’s just say that was the only take away from Missouri I admired....at least politically speaking.

[LakeArenal]

7. I pity the fools. 😉

I didn’t know either. Learn at least one thing a day.