Tag: Tanager

It was on a very hot day in July 2017 that I visited Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary for the first time. It was also the first time I really got to see the bright red, male scarlet tanager. I remember it was not a very fruitful day birding-wise. Other than this scarlet tanager, I saw...

A Western Tanager — generally unexpected anywhere east of Colorad0 — is visiting downtown Manhattan, and it’s the first of its kind seen here since the spring of 2008. The bird is hanging out at City Hall Park, a historic site between Tribeca and the Brooklyn Bridge, and there, hig...