Western Tanager

Piranga ludoviciana

• ORDER: Passeriformes
• FAMILY: Cardinalidae

This excellent photo is not mine. 😦 I haven’t been able to get a good one of this little bossy guy yet. Photo source: USFWS in Public Domain.

We first saw the Tanager at the half an orange feeder that we set up for the Orchard Orioles and the Black Headed Grosbeak. The feeder is now visited by the evening grosbeaks as well. Even though the grosbeaks are so mild mannered they’ll wait their turn at the feeder, the little tanager will chase them off.