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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: silverfoxx on April 30, 2009, 03:30:39 PM

Title: rose-breasted grosbeaks have made it to east york
Post by: silverfoxx on April 30, 2009, 03:30:39 PM

spotted the first Rose-Breasted Grosbeak this morning
four days earlier than last year

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Post by: TomTelford on May 01, 2009, 06:47:17 PM

Here too!

Now to find the male....

Tom.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3492720972_b89fe76dba_m.jpg)

Title: Grossbeak
Post by: Jimbo on May 01, 2009, 07:49:21 PM

Tom: I have the male in St. Thomas. He has been here for three days and looks pretty lonesome.

(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt152/sharmacd/Grossbeak.jpg)

Jim Dunn
St. Thomas

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Post by: TomTelford on May 01, 2009, 08:49:04 PM

He obviously didn't stop to ask for directions did he....?   :)

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Post by: Ann Brokelman on May 01, 2009, 08:51:10 PM

I also have a male at my place.  Man they are so beautiful.  Ann

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Post by: JMCDA on May 01, 2009, 11:23:52 PM

I have a male also, been here since Tuesday.  Boy, the colour in my apple tree is breathtaking when all 5 B Orioles,the Rose Breasted and a few male Goldfinches are all sitting in it contemplating what they will eat next. :-)

Today we added 2 white crowned sparrows to the arrivals, and something else I have heard (possibly a warbling vireo) but not seen close enough to tell for sure what it is.

Joann

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Post by: Anonymous on May 04, 2009, 09:12:06 AM

Just had a male out on the feeder this morning here in Scarborough.  At the same time an Indigo Bunting showed up as well.  Got some pictures and will post them later tonight.

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Post by: Anonymous on May 05, 2009, 12:35:25 AM

Here ya go...no sign of the female grosebeak as yet.  Maybe we can play match maker??  :lol: Pics were taken through glass, hence the soft focus.

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/RBGB1.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/RBGB2.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/IndigoBunting1.jpg)

Title: Rose-breasted grosbeak in German Mills Park
Post by: Howieh on May 05, 2009, 12:06:44 PM

I went back to German Mills Park yesterday looking for a bunch of bluejays that I'd seen the day before; no bluejays but there was a beautiful male RBG near the south entrance to the park off Leslie Street.