Western Mountain Ash fruit

Malcolm Furniss
The bright red fruit of this western mountain ash announce the coming of fall and will soon be fed on by migratory birds. The shrub occurs widely in forests of the mountainous west, including Moscow Mountain where I found this one recently.

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