[birding] Fwd: Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[karindonoyan at peak.org]

Hi Everyone:
One of the volunteers at Chintimini had a Rose-breasted Grosbeak at his
feeder - see message below.  For more information, please contact Dr.
Stacey Dean: cordeans at aol.com.
Please, no stampede, thanks.
Karin Donoyan




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Subject: Fwd: Rose-breasted Grosbeak
From:    "Karin Donoyan" <kdonoyan at gmail.com>
Date:    Tue, June 8, 2010 12:41 pm
To:      karindonoyan at peak.org
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From: cordeans at aol.com <cordeans at aol.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: Rose-breasted Grosbeak
To: kdonoyan at gmail.com



 Karin,  As we talked about at the Center, on 6/4/10 at about 5:30 pm
I had a visit at my backyard feeder from a rose-breasted grosbeak, who
stayed at the feeder for about an hour.  As you know, my house backs
right up to a mixed forest of Douglas Fir and Oak and is just about
half a mile uphill from Timberhill shopping center on Rolling Green
Dr.  I didn't know what type of grosbeak it was so I had to look it
up, and it was for certain a male in breeding colors, with a bright
red patch on it's breast.  I have lots of black-headed grosbeaks and
often a pair of evening grosbeaks but have never seen a rose-breasted
one before so it was pretty exciting.  I'll let you know if I see him
again,  Stacey