2026—Local Feast

Sometimes a bird doesn’t have to go far to find a feast. I had been watching a striking Blue-Gray Tanager perched in a tree when suddenly it hopped down a few branches. At its new location, I could see that it had found a feast of berries clustered on a branch (I haven’t been able to identify the tree) and it began to pluck berries one by one and consume them. This branch appears to have been a popular feasting site, as evidenced by empty nubs where berries once grew.