Thanks, Wayne. Your view trumps mine. My sighting was so very brief,
and I was so busy trying to set up the scope, that there's a real
chance of my id not being definitive--wasn't thinking hybrid, and had
no time for more than the jizz and the look at head and sides. The
facial red was maybe more extensive and slightly more burnished than
I'm used to with Western, but I couldn't think what else I might be
seeing, and my view was momentary, as I said.
Still chagrined,
Skip
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On 2011-05-11, at 16:06, waynerenaud1...@aol.com wrote:
further to Skip Shand's report of Western Tanager at Colonel Samuel
Smith park ... I also saw a tanager around 7:45 am in the very same
spot; bird had yellow sides but a red breast, rump and head, and
black wings. I also did not have a camera with me but had a very
good look at it. I was a loss to identify it. Obviously his tanager
was seen several hours later and but no field marks were proved.
This may or may not be the same bird? May be someone should shed
some light on the one I saw. Hybrid?
Wayne Renaud (289-828-0043)
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