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From: briond@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brion Dunbar)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Western Tanager behavior
Message-ID: <2469@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:25:19 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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CA.  Western Tanagers are common this time of year, although they normally
stay pretty high in the canopy.  Yesterday and today I've been having one
of them repeatedly land in a branch outside my window, fly up to the window
and bump it with his beak.  He then flies back to the branch, and then repeats
this about 10-20 times.  Then he flies up into the same tree and sings for a 
while, then comes back and repeats the performance.  I thought he might be
seeing himself in the glass but this morning when he started it was fairly dark
and I dont think there would have been any reflection.  He has done this same
behavior at 2 different windows.  Sometimes he sits on the window sill and 
looks in.  Beautiful bird.  Looks healthy, too.

Any ideas what he's up to?
briond@gold.gvg.tek.com