Summer Tanager
The Summer Tanager is, at least to me, one of our most beautiful birds. It is for certain North America's only totally red bird. The Summer Tanager is also known as the Bee Bird due to it's fondness for bees and wasps. The Tanagers are my favorite group of birds as they are common (at least in distribution), they are colorful, and there are a large number of species here in the Americas.
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Tracey Harmon Photography
on October 8, 2022I photographed this male Summer Tanager shortly after it caught a Cicada high in an oak tree in southeastern Oklahoma.