Check out Summer Tanager. They are a very rare but almost-annual winter visitor in the state. Rare meaning one or two per winter each year, and often, then, Visiting feeders. Hepatic Tanager is apocalyptically accidental to the eastern US. 

Summer Tanager, which looks so very extremely similar, is your likely candidate. 


JB
CLE, OH
www.jenbrumfield.com

On Feb 16, 2014, at 10:07 PM, "Robert Hust" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At about 1 p.m. today I saw a bird I'd never seen before. Using the Audubon
> guide, I identified it as a Hepatic Tanager. When I read more about it
> later, however, I realized it is almost certainly not one given their
> range. Anybody have any ideas what I might have seen.  Thank you.
> 
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