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It flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves,” wrote Thoreau in May 1853 after seeing a scarlet tanager.
The male scarlet tanager is one of the most astonishingly beautiful birds in North America — all 6 1/4 inches of him. “Scarlet” is inadequate to describe this tanager, for the red feathers that cover his body, except for jet black wings and tail, have enough orange to produce a kind of fire, the fire that inspired Thoreau.
The female is a dull greenish above and yellow tinged with green below. She is not so strikingly colored as the male, but has an elegant beauty of her own.
Lee Trott and I drove the long road to the home-in-thewoods of the Birds, off Fodderstack Road between Flint Hill and Washington. Diana and Lee Bird were away. Lee Trott had been invited to gather roses from
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