Welcome Scarlet

I had a new yard bird over the weekend. (For nonbirders, a "yard bird" is the first of a species identified when you are physically in your own yard.) I was outside painting and I heard it first. That "robin with a sore throat" song of the male scarlet tanager. I looked over to the woods where I thought I heard it and up popped that unmistakable plumage.

I've got 56 yard birds on my Beckett Haus list. Not as good as at my old house but not too bad considering the developed character of my neighborhood.
K-