Saw for the first time at my back-yard feeders a lone female Evening Grosbeak. What a surprise and great fun. She was gone in a flash :(
This has prompted me to report the lone, what I think, was a female Pine Grosbeak seen at the summit of Dock Butte yesterday, Sunday, September 1. This was at 5,000 feet on the west slope of the North Cascades in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (Skagit County). Perhaps the location was far enough north to be located in the most southern of the Pine Grosbeak's habitat range.
Sure do wish now that I had gotten a photo! Have looked at many photos on-line but the cone-shaped bill, wing bars, and breast with little or no markings are helpful in eliminating other possibilities.
Gayle Stebbings
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