Western Tanager in City Hall Park - 25th Nov

City Hall Park has really turned it on this autumn with yet another rarity, this time a Western Tanager which was found yesterday morning. Accordingly I caught an early train and got down there before the crowds. I found it quite quickly, in same area it had been seen yesterday. There were a few other birders there, and pretty soon everyone was on the bird. It moved south in the park, staying pretty high in the canopy, and I left it after about an hour. A nice quick twitch!

Female Western Tanager showing the smallish pink bill, white wing-bars, and yellow underparts.

The light was very poor, and the bird stayed high so the photographs are particularly bad, but what a bird!