show your rump

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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.

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