{"id":141486,"date":"2023-08-19T05:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T11:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=141486"},"modified":"2023-08-19T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T11:53:21","slug":"western-tanager-serviceberries-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/western-tanager-serviceberries-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Tanager – Serviceberries For Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers will recall that five days ago in the mountains I spent over 20 minutes with a large, mixed flock of songbirds as they were feeding on serviceberries, gleaning insects from foliage or hawking them out of the air. Species in the flock included Yellow Warblers, Orange Crowned Warblers, Western Tanagers and Cedar Waxwings.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve posted photos of one of the Yellow Warblers and one of the Cedar Waxwings.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Today you get one of the Western Tanagers, a female, as she was working over a serviceberry. She wasn’t close but she was in a relatively exposed spot on the outer margins of the bush so I was able to lock focus on her reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Some birds swallow serviceberries and other berries whole but she was what I call a “masher”. She chomped on that thing for quite a while, long enough for me to…<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

take 130 photos of her before she eventually swallowed the mashed-up berry. This photo was taken 59 frames after the previous one.<\/p>\n

Watching this bird made me wonder why all birds don’t mash up berries before swallowing them, just like humans would chew them first. Seems to me that it would make them much easier to digest. It also made me wonder if birds enjoy the taste of their food the way we do. They’d get little if any taste when they swallow berries whole.<\/p>\n

With birds there’s always something to think about.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Do birds ‘taste’ their food? (two photos)<\/p>\n

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