Summer Tanager (immature male) by Lloyd & Sandy Spitalnik

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30-APR-2004	Lloyd Spitalnik

Summer Tanager (immature male)

Central Park, NYC

Piranga rubra

As this male Summer Tanager continues to molt, yellow feathers will be replaced by red ones.

From the Cornell website-"The Summer Tanager is considered a bee and wasp specialist. It usually catches a bee in flight and then kills it by beating it against a branch. Before eating the bee, the tanager removes the stinger by rubbing it on a branch.

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM ,Canon 1.4X TC
1/200s f/5.6 at 420.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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Guest		21-May-2008 13:19
Awesome shot!

Guest		15-Jun-2007 20:41
Lovely res, fine capture and a good bokeh, V

Guest		23-May-2007 15:54
The colors on this bird is excellent,V

Debbie Blackburn Beierle		19-Apr-2007 05:14
This is stunning! Great shot! v

Guest		08-Nov-2006 02:17
Great shot. Good use of the square. Perfect focus and color!

Guest		23-Oct-2006 17:20
Beautiful capture and bird. The background colors are very nice with the bird. vote.

Richard Calmes		11-Oct-2006 18:06
What a beauty this is! V

Bob Foisel		11-Oct-2006 15:52
Wonderful capture and setting, love his colors.

coaster		23-Sep-2006 22:05
Good shot and lovely color.

carol j. phipps		23-Sep-2006 13:52
Gorgeous red.

golfpic		20-Jul-2006 00:00
Love that deep red colour. Lovely bird.

joer		03-Jul-2006 20:50
Super!

Buz Kiefer		29-Jun-2006 02:50
Darn, what a shot. I just don't understand how you birders, you good ones, manage to turn out such marvelous photos so consistently. Excellent and vote.

Peter Stahl		27-Jun-2006 14:50
Stunning looking bird. Nice capture. GMV.

Yi Feng		26-Jun-2006 00:13
Beautiful bird with great colors. Very nice background isolation.

Vilone		15-Apr-2006 01:41
Wow!Gorgeous image!~Voted!

Tom Munson		17-Feb-2006 20:18
Another beautiful image Lloyd. Well done.

Shmuel Halevi		07-Feb-2006 19:06
A Chinese drawing...

Peter Ericsson		06-Jan-2006 09:39
What a lovely thing! How common are these?

Sheila		01-Jan-2006 23:31
Wow! The opposite to your camouflaged birds! What a beauty.

Guest		22-Oct-2005 21:10
Very nice. I got a picture of one of these guys this summer and was so excited to get so close to such a beautiful bird. I guess they travel in pairs because I got the male and female both.