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My 1st Grosbeak for 2015. In the next few weeks I hope more arrive.

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Cool shots. Lil' fellow looks a bit the worse for wear from his migration. He'll probably spiff up in a few days.

Robert Williams wrote:Cool shots. Lil' fellow looks a bit the worse for wear from his migration. He'll probably spiff up in a few days.

My guess is about a week and he will be looking gooood.

It's interesting how many birds you have out that way that have a primary yellow or yellow orange color. Very few around here, sometimes a Goldfinch in the winter. The migrations of some of these birds is amazing. I'm most familiar with the Osprey not as much the smaller birds, but to think a bird flies several thousand miles in the fall, and back again in the spring is just amazing to me. The Osprey pair I watch on a cam up in Maine came back with the same rough look as this little guy, and it did take about a week of good eating and resting to look much more healthy. Then there is the fight to keep the nest, and all the rest. Nature is amazing to watch.

Larry Sullivan wrote:It's interesting how many birds you have out that way that have a primary yellow or yellow orange color. Very few around here, sometimes a Goldfinch in the winter. The migrations of some of these birds is amazing. I'm most familiar with the Osprey not as much the smaller birds, but to think a bird flies several thousand miles in the fall, and back again in the spring is just amazing to me. The Osprey pair I watch on a cam up in Maine came back with the same rough look as this little guy, and it did take about a week of good eating and resting to look much more healthy. Then there is the fight to keep the nest, and all the rest. Nature is amazing to watch.

We be on the same page.