Re: [cobirds] Re: Summer Tanager near Pueblo West Gravel Pit, Pueblo Co

Another crazy thing is, a Western Tanager was seen and photographed in the same general area on Saturday!  I am sure no Colorado Christmas Bird Count has have two tanagers on count day, it they are here this late, they might be thinking about wintering, maybe the Blackburnian Warbler has the same idea.  The Pueblo Reservoir CBC on 14 December, should be interesting if some of the recent goodies stay and more things show up in the next few weeks. 

Brandon K. Percival

Pueblo West, CO

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:44 PM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:

I was curious about prior November records of Summer Tanager for Colorado in eBird. I see that there are only two other November records for the state in eBird: 8 Nov 2006 at Colorado Springs, El Paso and 4 Nov 2015 at Littleton, Jefferson. So it is pretty nice for November! Or anytime, of course, as it was an all red male! Many of the trees near the south end of the gravel pit are Russian olives, so maybe it was feeding on some fruit, but we did not see it foraging. I should mention it was first spotted by Karen Strong. We did manage a documentary photo or two.

Expanding beyond November, my eBird search showed 3 Colorado records for December, at Lyons, Grand Junction and Penrose. Looking back to October adds just 6 more records in eBird for that month. So the late fall (Oct-Dec) total is 12 records for the state. One on Jan 1 should be added to this, though, as that might be fairly treated as a late migrant, maybe. So 13. 

David Suddjian

Ken Caryl Valley

Littleton, CO

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:10 PM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:

Our DFO trip just had an adult male Summer Tanager in the trees along the south side of the Pueblo West Gravel Pit.  Seems a pretty nice find for late Nov.

David Suddjian
Littleton Co

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