My wife and I are beekeepers. I happened to be watching our bees with my binos, through my family room window, when an interesting (and beautiful) bird dropped onto the ground in front of one of the hives. She snatched a bee and flew to a nearby shrub. She then flew into an oak tree right in front of my window and I got a great look: Female Summer Tanager--new yard bird for us.  I checked pictures in a couple of field guides and ran across this comment in the Stokes Summer Tanager entry: "Fond of eating bees and wasps, and will raid their nests." This one must have read the book.

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