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their yard — pink roses, yellow roses, and red roses almost as red as the male tanager.
The moment I opened the car door, I heard the rasping, hoarse notes of the red bird with black wings and tail. The tanager’s cadences are much like those of the robin and consist of four to five short phrases with distinct pauses between notes. Like “... a robin with a sore throat,” wrote Roger Tory Peterson in “A Field Guide to the Birds.”
Two tanagers sang from the Birds’ woods, a sort of vocal contest in which the two males Seemed to be saying, “You stay in your part of the oak forest and I will stay in mine.”
The woods rang with their repeated songs. I didn’t need to see the bird. My imagination supplied the vision of the brilliant red and black bird perched high among the new leaves of an oak, probably a chestnut oak, the dominant tree in the Birds’ woods.
Thoreau described the tanager as "... indolently inspecting the limbs and twigs — leaning over it — and sitting still a long time.” Scarlet tanagers do not constantly move about, but perch at the end of a limb and slowly search the
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