ML372237831

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Behaviors

Flying

Observation details

Interesting tanager seen relatively poorly in morning flight which I thought could have been a Summer Tanager (I may have photos and will update if I do and if identifiable). Update (9/24): Moving from Summer/Scarlet to Summer Tanager. Editing photos today and I did manage a single in-focus photo of this bird which combined with field observation is enough for an ID. In the field this was a relatively poorly seen flyover which was flying in an ENE direction (morning flight here is a mostly westbound/westbound-ish event). I got on this bird as it was overhead and most of my viewing was of it going away but It was clearly a tanager and the overall structure including large head/bill area and bulky feel struck me more as a Summer Tanager. I took a few photos since my views weren’t going to improve and then went back to monitoring the morning flight which was strong. Photo, while poor, shows a mostly yellow tanager with apparent large bill and orange/red blotching underneath including undertail coverts bleeding into undertail.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

EF400mm f/5.6L USM

ISO

2000

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/5000 sec

Dimensions

2811 pixels x 1874 pixels

Original file size

1.5 MB