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| Molting Male Summer Tanager |
Rancho Cardinalis is located in the Texas Hill Country outside the village of Center Point that rests on the Guadalupe River. We acquired the ranch in 2005, built temporary living quarters in 2006 and our home in 2009. Our ranch is managed under a State wildlife plan. The focus is on Near-Artic and Neo-Tropical migratory & breeding Hill County birds. We also manage for small mammals and butterflies. The ranch is named after our most abundant bird – Northern Cardinal - cardinalis
Texas Forest Stewardship award
In 2007 we received a Texas Forest Stewardship award. L-R; Susan Sander, Sherry Collins, Clay Bales, Tom Collins
Monday, May 28, 2012
A Tanager of a Different Color
There must be an infinite number of ways that a molting Summer Tanager can appear. This guy has been singing his syrinx (sound producing organ of a bird) off. I wonder if any female will take to his odd color? Perhaps by season end he will reach his full mating color, but until then he will remain a Tanager of a Different Color...
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