Saturday, May 23, 2009

Yellow Beauty



Today I had some new feathery friends arrive.
There were four or five of them.
Gorgeous yellow with black and white.
I took a few photos through my window.
I went all over the house looking for my bird book.
Finally, I asked my daughter if she'd seen it.
It was on her book shelf. Why ?
I'll never know but the mystery is solved.
My visitor today is the Evening Grosbeak.

7 comments:

Herrad said...

Hi JC,

Fine looking bird is it part of the finch family?

Love,
Herrad

JC said...

I will get out my handy dandy bird book and get back to you on that ... having my first cup of coffee ..

JC said...

Well there you go ... Starling -sized, stocky finch with a very large, pale greeish or yellowish conical bill. Mall has brown head shading to yellow on lower back, rump, and underparts; bright yellow forehead and eyebrow; bold white wing patches. Female similar by grayer.

JC said...

This grosbeak formerly bred no farther east than Minnesota, but more food available at bird feeders may have enabled more birds to survivie the winter, and the species now breeds east to the Atlantic. Like most of the northern finches, however, these birds are more numerous in some years than in others. In winter they feed in flocks mainly on the seeds of box elder or on sunflower seeds at feeders. In spring the outer coating of the bill peels off, exposing the blue-green color beneath.

From my Handy Dandy Bird Book ... known as page 774 of the National Audubon Society .. Field Guide To Birds .. Western Region of North America.

JC said...

And sorry for the spelling errors .. I was actually typing from the book instead of the normal copy and paste ..

Coffee is good but the fingers .. they aren't what they used to be.

Darn coma and not ms .. (remember the experts say I don't have it .. just bad migraines ... oh, what do they know )

Oh by the way, the yellow friends have been visiting me all week. Maybe they live here or are just passing by ... time will tell

Anonymous said...

Glad to see you have such pretty feathered friends visiting!

Anonymous said...

Wow you have all kinds of different birds where you are. That is a pretty handy book.

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