Chickiemama, you must be on the eastern side of the country, more or less - or at least the eastern side of the midwest. I'd love to see one! But then, I'd love to have a maple tree, too!
Mr. O, the trouble I find with birdwatching is that it's so easy for me to confuse the females!! I can look at this picture and it's easy to identify this bird, but the female is pretty plain - and looks like so many others, especially from a bit of distance! We don't have as many birds here as we used to. Crows have moved in with a vengeance, and some species have all but disappeared. But there is a little flycatcher that visits my year, and I've got so that I now get concerned if I open the curtains in the morning and he isn't already hard at work for the day!
Roseheather - and the immature males are more robin-colored!
PompomQT - I'm glad you think so! I think so too!
Sunbulls, that's sure true about their migration patterns changing. If I ever see one on the West Coast, I'll know for sure we are in big trouble!!
Robryan, that's exactly it. Big beak. And that's a good fit. It needs that stubby powerful beak to crack the seeds it favors.
In Western NY, we have seen three of them last spring on our bird feeder. I understand studies have shown that their migrations habits are changing, probably due to climate change.
When I first saw a rose-breasted grosbeak, high up on a utility pole behind our back yard, I thought it was maybe a robin which was ill. It was quite a ways away so not that easy to discern. The last couple of years they have visited our feeder in the spring.
A big grin, PotatoMum. The bird watchers and bird photographers on Jigidi have made me realize I do not pay much attention to the feathered friends I see. If ChickieMama is seeing them (some hours south of me), maybe I should pay some attention as Spring rolls around!
I'm so glad, chickiemama! Until I went looking for a bird that might have laid a heart-shaped egg (because of oddio's comment!!), I'd never seen a picture of this bird. We sure don't have them here!
Mr. O: as per your request on http://www.jigidi.com/puzzle.php?id=QCP0GGGC. This bird must have been blown far out of its range, but I think it must have been his sweetheart who laid the egg!
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