grosbeaks

I've had evening grosbeaks in migration, hoary redpolls driven down from the arctic during harsh winters, Rufous-sided towhees tossing aside leaves like crazy people, in search of what I'm not entirely sure.

This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

We will also see adverse consequences to wildlife that depend on the food and shelter provided in this otherwise inauspicious high-elevation habitat: squirrels, chipmunks, grosbeaks, nutcrackers, elk and grizzly bears.

Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone 2010

I was just reading the other day that seed-eating birds like pine grosbeaks also like spruce tips, so makes sense.

How to Harvest Spruce Tips with Recipes for Using Spruce Tips (or Pine Tips or Fir Tips) Laurie Constantino 2008

We move to the dining room, a welcoming space with a fireplace and a view through sliding doors of the deck and seed and nectar feeders ablur with the wings of purple finches, titmice, orioles, towhees, grosbeaks, and hummingbirds.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

We will also see adverse consequences to wildlife that depend on the food and shelter provided in this otherwise inauspicious high-elevation habitat: squirrels, chipmunks, grosbeaks, nutcrackers, elk and grizzly bears.

Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone 2010

In summer, scarlet and/or summer tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and ovenbirds are common.

Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental) Province (Bailey) 2009

I'm keeping my eyes out for sparrows, evening grosbeaks and robins.

Trills of the Western Meadowlark.... Gumbo Lily 2009

Hoards of evening grosbeaks apparently were starving and had come further south than their usual winter home.

You Can So Do This « Fairegarden 2009

Suet for the orioles and woodpeckers, sunflower seeds for the cardinals and grosbeaks.

Declarative Sentences 2009

My boyhood haunts, where I came to know the grosbeaks, warblers, and other once abundant members of the creature kingdom have been converted to shopping malls and housing tracts.

Jeff Biggers: In the Name of Rosa Parks: Arrest of 81-Year-Old on Fast, Mourning Mountaintop Removal 2009