We have a female rose breasted grosbeak at our feeder in Huntsville. She
appeared 4 days ago during the snow storm. She's feeding a lot and just
hanging out with the other birds, juncos, mourning doves, blue jays, chickadees
and so on. Any ideas about her survival rate? Back channel
smit...
Winter listers may be interested in a find made by Jerry Ball and myself at 4.
30 pm while returning today from Algonquin Park: just south of Northey's Bay
Road ( Petroglyphs Prov. Pk. ), we stopped at feeders in front of house # 3372
on County Road 6 where we watched a female Rose-breasted Gros
A nice early Spring migrant showed up at our feeder yesterday. Many more to
come I’m sure!
(I also discovered that changing your email supplier means you have to update
your Ont-birds subscription.)
Gene Denzel
lez...@yorku.ca
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The first male Rose-breasted Grosbeak of the season showed up at the
feeders today. House Wrens also arrived in the last few days.
The Eastern Bluebirds are actively building a nest in on of the many
nesting boxes on our property.
Directions: From Walkerton take Bruce Rd 19 north from the TSC stor
Hello Birders,
Today I had my first Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (female) sighting since I started
birding at Eglinton Flats in 1999 (photos taken).
She was at the birdfeeder from noon till 6 PM.
First Palm Warbler visited the park.
Good birding,
Jacek Pawlikowski
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At 5 pm a beautiful male RB Grosbeak was on one of my feedersa
few days earlier than expected.
905 6th Conc. Rd., west of Walsingham, next to Big Creek.
Diane Salter
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New arrivals hunkering down from the rain:
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Blue-headed Vireo, Black and White Warbler, Palm
Warbler, Pine Warbler, Purple Finch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Rusty Blackbird,
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Brown Thrasher, plus usuals.
The Woods are very wet an
Hello everyone!*
*Pete Chapman, Blake Mann and I observed a beautiful *male rose-breasted
grosbeak* at Pete's house this morning (Saturday) as we began the *Kettle
Point CBC*. The bird showed up at about 8:15 and was still present when we
left about 5 minutes later. It has been coming to the sunf
I had a female Rose-breasted grosbeak at our feeders this morning (17
April). This is eleven days earlier than my previous earliest sighting.
Barbara Mann
Lavender, ON
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A male rose-breasted grosbeak was at Riverwood in Mississauga Thursday,
visiting the feeders behind Chappell House throughout the day. Good
numbers of white-throated sparrows were also present.
Recent spring migrant sightings along the trails include blue-winged
warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, a
11 February 2009
A female Rose-breasted Grosbeak visited our feeder zone today at 11:30
am in Port Burwell.
Joe Stephenson
Port Burwell is at the southern end of Hwy 19 on the north shore of
Lake Erie. Our feeder is at 3 Bridge St.
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Currently Georg Hentsch and I just saw a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at his
feeder in Cambridge, Ont. This bird has been present for most of the day
feeding at Georg's feeder. If you would like to see it please email Georg at
ghent...@blsoft.ca. His address is 2174 Spragues Rd. just out side of
Hello all,
I also had the pleasure of having a beautiful male Rose-breasted grosbeak visit
my sunflower feeder at around 3:30 pm yesterday afternoon at the Bucke
Conservation Area (Kettle Creek Conservation Authority office). It was a
welcome addition to the regular visitors to me feeder. Th
We had a young male RB Grosbeak in our yard two days ago (May 1st) He
took a bath in our pond :)
Today we have a White-crowned Sparrow in our yard. I've been waiting
since hearing about others.
Rose Petersen
Ancaster ON
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I just returned from seeing the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Scarborough.
The homeowners are birder-friendly but please respect their privacy and that
of their neighbours.
The feeder is not visible from the street and the bird is extremely skittish
and only visits occasionally so be careful as you e
Fred Bosworth just called to indicate that at least one male Rose-breasted
Grosbeak has been coming occasionally to a feeder in his daughter's backyard
in east Scarborough for the past few days but it (they?) has not been seen
since yesterday.
Fred asked me to post anyway and apologizes for the d
I'd just finished one of the less pleasant aspects of Spring (mowing
the lawn) when I heard a distinctive 'chink', and sure enough there was
a gorgeous Rose Breasted Grosbeak scarfing down the buds on a
crabapple. It seems a tad early, as usually the buds on this tree have
opened when they arri
Hi All,
Just arrived back from some superb birding in South Florida with Tom
Hince's group, and while unpacking we noticed a male ROSE-BREASTED
GROSBEAK at one of our feeders (this seems a little early for our
yard). What a nice welcome home! There were also several
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS ha
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