In my Nature Notebook...

11/26/2012

A fowl weekend! -- saw several red tailed hawks and 5 fat male turkeys on the side of the highway on the way to Canada. Mom's feeder was like Penn Station--emptied of sunflower seed by teeming chickadees in just two days! I saw my first Pine Grosbeaks. The mature male is red; this year's crop are light brown (m) and light green (f). They are part of the finch family but LARGE, 8-9 inches and shaped like a fat robin. I painted him but he was garish and awkward...the red and black in my picture remind me of a bad Chinese restaurant. I wish i had been more careful to get the colours right.

Pine Grosbeak, Cornell

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