Hi Don,
Must've really been something to see! May truly is wonderful!

Rick


Isn't May wonderful?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Sweig <>
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Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 10:16 pm
Subject: [MDOSPREY] EXTRALIMITAL: Orange -Variant Tanager


From the Va. list serve, FYI my Maryland friends.
Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:04 PM
ubject: Orange -Variant Tanager
o: 
While I was fixing lunch today, I looked out my kitchen window at the bird
ath about 8-10 feet away) and saw a bright orange bird about the size of a
ardinal or a Robin.  Having never seen an  Oriole in my yard before, I ran
nd got my camera and managed to get about 30 shots before the bird few
way. It was a beautiful bright orange bird. As I was reviewing he pictures
n my camera, I realized something was odd; the bird had no wing bars and no
lack on the head or neck. It was not an Oriole; it was a Tanager; an
range-variant  "Scarlet" Tanager.  Sibley ( 2000, P. 463), notes such birds
re "occasional."  Chan " Robbins, (1966, 1983\, p.306) notes such birds are
sually "first year males".  I had seen orange Tanagers before, always at a
istance; never so close or so orange as the one I saw today. It really was
 stunning bird.
arlier in the day I had seen a bright, male Cape May Warbler in the stream
t Monticello Park, and in the late afternoon was able to photograph an even
righter Cape May from about 15 feet in a friend's back yard bird steam.
hat a day !!  Isn't May wonderful?
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onald Sweig
alls Church, Va.
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