While I was leading a bird walk at the Cincinnati Nature Center this morning we found some very interesting birds, but by far the most interesting was an orange variant Scarlet Tanager. We heard a Scarlet Tanager singing near the welcome shack at the entrance to CNC.  When we first found the bird it appeared so orange we thought that we were looking at a Baltimore Oriole, but the bird kept singing like a Scarlet Tanager. Upon closer inspection the larger tanager bill could be seen as well as the tanager body shape (more compact than a Baltimore Oriole).  The bird also had black wings(no wing-bars) and a black tail.  I had heard about orange variant Scarlet Tanagers, but I hadn't seen one before.
We also found a chipping sparrow building a nest near the parking lot.  Yellow-breasted Chats were sitting high in the bushes and singing. Numbers of birds seen were estimated after we were finished with the walk.


Location:     Rowe Woods Nature Center
Observation date:     7/12/08
Number of species:     44

Wood Duck     14
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Mourning Dove     8
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     2
Chimney Swift     10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     6
Downy Woodpecker     3
Northern Flicker     4
Eastern Wood-Pewee     2
Acadian Flycatcher     6
Eastern Phoebe     1
Red-eyed Vireo     6
Blue Jay     4
American Crow     6
Purple Martin     1
Barn Swallow     24
Carolina Chickadee     12
Tufted Titmouse     12
White-breasted Nuthatch     3
Carolina Wren     8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     12
Eastern Bluebird     1
Wood Thrush     2
American Robin     24
Gray Catbird     1
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     4
Common Yellowthroat     3
Yellow-breasted Chat     3
Scarlet Tanager     4
Eastern Towhee     10
Chipping Sparrow     24
Field Sparrow     12
Northern Cardinal     35
Indigo Bunting     6
Red-winged Blackbird     4
Common Grackle     50
Brown-headed Cowbird     10
Orchard Oriole     1
Baltimore Oriole     15
House Finch     4
American Goldfinch     12

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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