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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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