This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

May 16, 2014
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

Warbler time is still on in Iowa. This morning was the best, the best, the best. And to top off the kaleidoscope of warblers, a scarlet tanager rummaged about in the tippy top of a gigantic walnut tree.

Oh, why are birds so gorgeous? Why does the biology of the tanager's plumage meet so perfectly with our human sense of beauty?

© 2014 Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

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