We saw something similar on Saturday on the Frog Hollow Trail in the 
Prettyboy IBA.  Our bird was at the very top of a tree in poor light, so 
all we could see was that the wings were dark, the breast was yellow and 
it had red about the face.  It was, however, singing a very definite 
Scarlet Tanager song and the Birdpod Western Tanager song did not compare.

Georgia McDonald   Towson, Balt Co

John F Stup wrote:
> i saw an incomplete looking scarlet tanager high up in a tree at little
> bennett today. it had bright red around it's head area and some red above
> it's rump although i couldn't see it's back very well because of the height.
> but underneath it was mostly white or light gray with some yellow near tail.
> the parts that are usually black where an almost black gray. i know it isn't
> time for them to molt. so does this describe a fledgling scarlet tanager?
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