Blue-gray Tanager
Sycamore Grove Park, Livermore, CA
The Blue-gray Tanager is native to South America, ranging from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil. A surprising sighting of a lone Blue-gray Tanager (white-edged subspecies) in early April in the Arroyo Road parking lot of Sycamore Grove Park has attracted many birders to the Park looking for it. No one knows how this blue beauty came to the Bay Area, so far north from its natural range. Although there is a creek in the Park, it appears to have figured out where and how to drink cleaner water. This picture was taken right before it buried its head into the spout of the drinking fountain! It then flew down to the ground, and moments later up to a nearby Sycamore tree and fed on something protruding on the branch.
Blue-gray Tanager
Sycamore Grove Park, Livermore, CA
The Blue-gray Tanager is native to South America, ranging from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil. A surprising sighting of a lone Blue-gray Tanager (white-edged subspecies) in early April in the Arroyo Road parking lot of Sycamore Grove Park has attracted many birders to the Park looking for it. No one knows how this blue beauty came to the Bay Area, so far north from its natural range. Although there is a creek in the Park, it appears to have figured out where and how to drink cleaner water. This picture was taken right before it buried its head into the spout of the drinking fountain! It then flew down to the ground, and moments later up to a nearby Sycamore tree and fed on something protruding on the branch.