The trend of irrupting winter birds keeps rolling along this year. History is in the making for this next featured species. A 'mega flight” of evening grosbeaks occurred in the winter of 1977-78. This ...

Snow, snow and more snow … the wind is nil as we watch the gods of winter turn our world into a snow globe, the gentle and continuous snow falling silently, so keenly observed in the immortal words of ...

Colorful, bold and sassy are good descriptors for this bird that could be said to resemble a huge goldfinch. In the east, the evening grosbeak breeds in Canada and often visits Pennsylvania and other ...

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The appearance of evening grosbeaks has created excitement in the local birding world. This grosbeak is a striking bird, and it’s been largely absent for close to four decades. Just why evening ...

With a large white beak, a dazzling crescent of yellow on the dark forehead and a large patch of white feathers on the wings, there is nothing in our area that looks quite like an evening grosbeak.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Last February, several evening grosbeaks, which we rarely see here, visited our feeder. About the size of robins, the males were yellow with black and ...

Every winter, there are some species of birds that, to me, are the birds of winter - birds that summer in the northern boreal forests or the high Arctic and then spend winters at our bird feeders. We ...