A certain ornithologist tells with complacent pride of having shot over fifty-eight rose-breasted grosbeaks in less than three weeks (during the breeding season) to learn what kind of food they had in their crops.
Possibly evening grosbeaks were in vogue for the next season's millinery, or perhaps Eastern ornithologists had a sudden zeal to investigate their structural anatomy.
Wherever there are clusters of pine or cedar trees, when there is a flock of pine grosbeaks in the neighborhood, you may expect to find a pair of birds diligently feeding upon the seeds and berries.
Possibly the heavy bills of all the grosbeaks make them look stupid whether they are or not -- a characteristic that the blue grosbeak's habit of sitting motionless with a vacant stare many minutes at a time unfortunately emphasizes.
At all times, the Grosbeaks showed the fearlessness of man so characteristic of Pine Grosbeaks and the Crossbills, but their tameness was especially noticeable when the flock was busily feeding.
Miss Denton had never seen Evening Grosbeaks in this territory before, although she tells me Pine Grosbeaks are fairly common winter visitors.
Wood; Evening Grosbeaks and Cardinals in Southern Wisconsin, Ethel A.
The large number of observers who came from a radius of ten miles to see these rare Grosbeaks demonstrated how great the interest in birds is at the present time.
Twenty-five of the Grosbeaks now being in the maples across the way.
Evening Grosbeakshave been seen this season at several points in eastern Massachusetts.
Evening Grosbeaks in Connecticut I wish to report a thrilling experience which I had this morning.
The pinegrosbeaks from the north are the most destructive budders that come among us.
Grosbeaks are restless birds, always on the move, here to-day and gone to-morrow.
Grosbeaks live in forests, and go about either in couples or in small companies.
Histograms representing breeding schedules of wood warblers, the House Sparrow, icterids, and cardinal grosbeaks in Kansas.
Hybrids between these two grosbeaks are regularly produced.
While watching my first couple of grosbeaks I suddenly became aware of a wood thrush passing back and forth between the edge of a brook and a certain oak, against the hole of which she was making ready her summer residence.
At least two pairs of rose-breasted grosbeakshad summer quarters here; and busy enough they looked, flitting from one side of the garden to another, yet not too busy for a tune between whiles.
To the great delight of their neighbors, the house-dwellers, they built their nests, the grosbeaksin a tree near one side of the porch, the tanagers in one near the opposite side.
Late in April, with other kinds a pair of scarlet tanagers and a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaksvisited the trees.
When only ten weeks old the little boy grosbeaks began to warble.
A friend who reared four orphan grosbeaks says that they left the nest when about eleven {133} days old.
June, 1906, was memorable to us for the abundance of these Grosbeaks in the vicinity of Spokane.
Evening Grosbeaks are semi-gregarious the year around, but are seen to best advantage in winter or early spring, when they flock closely and visit city parks or wooded lawns.
When a nest was disturbed, all the neighboring Grosbeaksgathered and appeared equally interested.
The Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks arrive in May and nest early in June.
Except during the nesting season the Pine Grosbeaksare gregarious and are frequently seen in flocks of fifteen or more individuals.
There is a slight variation in the plumage coloration and in the shape of the bills of the Pine Grosbeaks of widely separated regions.
Ere the crossbills leave the pine woods, Ere the grosbeaks seek the ash seeds.
The true grosbeaks are related to the goldfinch, the finches, the sparrows, the buntings and the crossbills.
In places like these the Pine Grosbeaks may often be seen perched conspicuously on the top of a spruce fir, twenty or thirty feet from the ground but looking so much like the last spike of the tree as frequently to escape notice.
Another pair of bluegrosbeaks built in a grave-yard within the city limits.
Possibly the heavy bills of all the grosbeaks make them look stupid whether they are or not--a characteristic that the blue grosbeak's habit of sitting motionless with a vacant stare many minutes at a time unfortunately emphasizes.
Another pair of blue grosbeaks built in a graveyard within the city limits.
The lady grosbeaks certainly have very little to say to one another, though when mating in their secluded haunts they probably express their preferences decidedly.
When the grosbeaks are with us you would not be apt to notice them unless you stumbled directly upon them, for they are the most silent of birds, which is remarkable, since the great majority of them are females".
For several winters the grosbeaks were exceedingly abundant in the vicinity of Boston, and were so tame that they could be captured in butterfly nets, and knocked down with poles.
One very severe, stormy winter thegrosbeaks fairly crowded the streets of Pictou.
What a beautiful sight it must be to see a flock of these birds--Evening Grosbeaks and Rose-Breasted in their pretty plumage.
If the grosbeaks were there, I meant to see them, though I should have to spend all day in the attempt.
I lingered about, while my companion and the black flies were busy, and was on the point of turning away for good, when up flew two red birds and alighted in a tree close by the one out of which the grosbeaks had dropped.
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