Hi All,

Thank you for helping me determine just what bird I have been observing 
eating my bees.As I said earlier he is so pretty that I don`t want to harm him.

He is either the scarlet Tanager,or the summer Tanager.I  think probably 
the summer Tanager.The dark on the sides of him are really not dark 
black,probably a lighter color more grey ----------brown.

I guess he is a little further North than usual,being up in Maine,on an 
island. I will try to drive him off rather than harm him.In the area that I 
live in people sometimes place  fake owl to drive gulls,and other birds off.

While reading about this bird it was described as a bee,and wasp specialist.

The bird will live.I will somehow drive him away.If I hadn`t felt sorry 
about shooting him,I would have done that yesterday.

Wayne Young

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