One of two Western Tanagers seen at Mineral Wells Picnic Area today. The Los Angeles Audubon Society named their newsletter “The Western Tanager” (strange, since it isn’t endemic to the area.)
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News you won't see on the Morning Shows:
Western Tanager showed up to eat some berries from our tree before heading to higher elevation for sexy-time

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2700 feet high in the San Gabriels, in a gravel lot near the intersection of two mountain roads you will find a couple old picnic tables: this is Bear Divide Vista Picnic Area. Nine years ago, humans discovered that as many as 20,000 birds a day fly through this notch during spring migration. This Western Tanager rests for a few seconds before continuing his journey from Central America to Northern Canada.
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Male Western Tanagers have been compared to “a flame” due to their bright orange, yellow & black coloration. I recently got to see 1 in our neighbors’ pine tree in Tucson, AZ & illustrated it for my Perpetual Journal.

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