October
12th, 2014. Adult male and female Evening Grosbeaks (Pheucticus
ludovicianus) arrived at our bird feeders at the end of April.
The male was shy and would land in the
branches of a tree near the platform feeder. He came to the platform feeder a
few times and then disappeared.
The
female wasn’t as shy and came to the sunflower tube feeder several times a day
for almost two weeks.
We
are a little south of their breeding range so they were migrating north at the
time.
Then,
on October 12th, we saw two young males, one at the sunflower feeder
and…
another at the platform feeder.
They
stayed around for a couple of days and then were gone, migrating south to the
Caribbean or Central/South America. It’s a little sad that they aren’t resident
here but it was nice to see them on their way through.
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