Tag: rose-breasted grosbeak
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Roses in the Yard
Seen upon the ground, the dark bird is scarcely attractive with his clumsy beak overbalancing a head that protrudes with stupid-looking awkwardness; but as he rises into the trees his lovely rose-colored breast and under-wing feathers are seen, and before he has had time to repeat his delicious, rich-voiced warble you are already in love Read more…
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A Rose-y Spring
What strong colored fellows, black, white, and fiery rose-red breasts! ~Henry David Thoreau They’re back…it will only be for a couple of weeks, but I will enjoy every minute of it. Saturday morning, I saw my first Rose-breasted Grosbeak of the season. Uncharacteristically, it was a female (males usually arrive first in their travels north Read more…
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Garden Birds – Rose-breasted Grosbeak
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. ~Henry David Thoreau Perhaps he meant to say… one attraction in retiring was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. I have lived in the woods Read more…
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Roads End Naturalist 