A Western Tanager continued at Crocheron Park this morning. I had not until today looked at any photos of the bird(s) present recently at the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area (ca. 1.5 miles away), but Corey Finger's photos from 25 Nov clearly show a bird with uniformly juvenal greater coverts on its right wing:
https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40716432 The bird we saw this morning at Crocheron Park clearly showed a mix of juvenal (small, worn, grayish-brown, restricted whitish tips) and formative (large, fresh, black, extensive whitish tips) greater coverts on this wing: https://flic.kr/p/22k7Kfv The number of feathers replaced, as well as the slightly eccentric manner in which the replacement skipped one juv feather) argue against a single bird molting over a two week period. Other photos from the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area show a Western Tanager that appears brighter than the one in Corey's photos (perhaps more similar to the Crocheron bird), but the photos I found do not show the wing feathers in sufficient detail for comparison with Corey's bird, or with the Crocheron bird. Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Steve Walter [swalte...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00 PM To: nysbird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don’t know whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also called Golden Pond). >From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street >(second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until the >end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th Avenue, >make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here is ample. Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley – especially as we’re heading toward CBC time. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
