[cobirds] Scarlet Tanager, Alamosa County

5/23 list - Alamosa NWR.What was a Scarlet Tanager doing there???? Flying over grassland in straight direction,  N-S, steady deliberate wingbeat, no flitting or swooping, c. 25' feet over ground, red head and body, black wing.
   
  Mallard
  Cinnamon Teal 
  Swainson's Hawk
   Western Grebe
   Am. Coot
   WILSON'S SNIPE
   Black-billed Magpie
   Common Raven
   Violet-green Swallow
   Marsh Wren
   Western Bluebird
   Am. Robin
   Sage Thrasher
   SCARLET TANAGER 
   Brewer's Sparrow   
   Song Sparrow 
   Red-winged Blackbird
    Yellow-headed Blackbird

 Virginia Simmons, Del Norte