Friday, February 4, 2011

show your rump




While I was at Hugh Morgan’s observing the summer tanager I got to mark another thing off my “to do” list. A photograph of a yellow-rumped warbler’s yellow rump.


Even in drab winter plumage, the only warbler that spends the cold weather months in the Tennessee Valley still has the bright dandelion-colored field marking on its backside above the tail.


Rump. Tush. Tochus. Derriére. Duff. Bum. Whatever you want to call the spot, it’s spectacular.


Such a sight.