Back to the business of posting some bird photos again. Today's theme is birds of various colors. I'm limiting these to friends we can see right here in North America. I'll leave their perhaps more obvious counterparts from the Tropics alone for the time being.
This is a Summer Tanager, a member of the Cardinalidae family and a specialist on capturing and eating bees and wasps. All red. 
This fellow is a Blue Grosbeak, also of Cardinalidae. He's obviously wondering who that strikingly handsome bird in the water is and whether he poses any threat. 
This is a Prothonotary Warbler. Named for clerks in the Catholic Church who wore bright golden robes. (Other birds named for Catholic officials: Northern Cardinal, Orange Bishop.)
Tundra swans in an (apparently) empty cornfield on NWR land in mid-winter. They've been out feeding all day and are about to go huddle together on or near a nearby lake to keep safe and warm on this winter night. 
American Bittern. Hard to spot, huh? That's not an accident. He's hiding and doing a pretty good job of it.
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