For no reason other than simple curiosity and being a bit of a nerd with an interest in molt, I compared photos of the Scarlet Tanager that was at Harriman Lake from 24-26 May 2020, and the bird found on Deer Creek Canyon and Buckhorn yesterday (31 May 2020), both Jeff Co. They are different individuals, well, unless the Harriman bird underwent a massive molt in the last 5 days, which is not possible. Ha!
The Harriman bird had a pretty clean red belly and flanks (no yellow), a couple yellow undertail coverts (feathers), some yellow on the back and even a retained yellow feather above the right eye, with all primaries and most (if not all) secondaries being brownish (retained from last year) with the nice fresh black greater and lesser coverts and retained brownish primary coverts. See some great photos in this list: https://ebird.org/checklist/S69700243 Obvious retained yellow feathers on the back here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S69668877 The Buckhorn bird has some yellow on the flanks (in some photos) which could be to disheveled feathers more than anything, red undertail, back, and face, and all black primaries (from what I can tell). https://ebird.org/checklist/S69920264 https://ebird.org/checklist/S69916700 There were only 2 previous eBird records for Scarlet Tanager in JeffCo, so 2 distinct birds in a week is pretty sweet! Good birding, Scott Somershoe Littleton CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJmtx%2BU33%3Db9nK0RNK%2BYuqm7xxss-jL0V5er0Gb3gAUwm8hyFg%40mail.gmail.com.
