Tanager, Kate Sessions Park

There is a reasonable candidate for a Scarlet Tanager in Kate Sessions Park today (Friday  11/09) but I could be wrong & maybe it is a Summer Tanager.

Definitely a tanager, in winter plumage.  Yellow throat, belly, under tail.  Olive-greenish above.  Roundish head.  Bill that I judged to be not large enough for a Summer.  No wing bars.  Slightly darker wings than back.  I thought the bird was smaller than a Summer Tanager would be.

I observed it for about twenty minutes from the bench about 30 feet west of the tree but I never got a super great look at it as it was moving around rapidly within the tree branches and never perched in good sunlight.  Sorry, I didn't have a camera.

In a Carrotwood Tree which is along the sidewalk just beyond the circle with the flagpole (which is just past the bathrooms).  There is a memorial plaque at the base of the tree… In Memory of Winifred Blanchard. (I may have her last name wrong – I should have written it down).

I was there from 10:00 to 10:20

Ross Christie

Pacific Beach