[Birdnet] Summer Tanager, Salt Lake County in about 2000

[Sherwood Casjens]

Several years ago there was a male Summer Tanager hanging around in  
my grape arbor in the Salt Lake City avenues at about this time (mid  
August).  It stayed two days and then was gone.

Sherwood Casjens
1360 2nd Ave., SLC

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On Aug 11, 2007, at 12:46 AM, FERGUS, Rob wrote:

> While leading a birding tour for the Outdoor Retailers Expo this  
> evening we found a juvenile female Summer Tanager at the entrance  
> gate to the Inland Sea Shorebird Reserve west of the 7200 W exit on  
> I-80 in Salt Lake County.  It was actually perched on the right  
> side of the gate down near the fragmites.  After about a minute it  
> flew off to the east down the canal and into the fragmites.  It was  
> quite a shock to see this bird here in northern Utah at this date,  
> and in such seemingly atypical habitat (not a tree to be seen  
> anywhere).
>
>
> Rob Fergus
> Senior Scientist | Urban Bird Conservation
> National Audubon Society
> 545 Almshouse Road, Ivyland PA 18974
> Phone: 215 355 9588 x17
>
>
>
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