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She is such a good mother!
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This boy and his mother have been at my feeder constantly for the past few days. There are at least 2 other young ones, but this one seems to either be her favorite, or a Mama's boy. Sometimes he just begs, and sometimes he goes to the feeder himself and tries to eat the seeds while his mother watches from the nearby tree. He spends a lot of ...
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I think this is an immature rose-breasted grosbeak.. It and another just like it came behind the male, but there was also another who I didn't get a good picture of that had more striking markings on it's face, more like a mask. I think that might have been the adult female.
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Another shot of the father bird
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Now this is how I expect a male rose breasted grosbeak to look! I was worried about the other male I took pictures of a few days ago, decided he was in some stage of molt. Either he finished really fast, or this is someone else.. maybe his father? There were a few either lady grosbeaks or juveniles waiting for him in the tree. I like to ...
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I have had just one rose-breasted grosbeak come to the feeder I put out a few weeks ago.. actually I haven't seen him IN the feeder, just in the tree next to it. But his plumage is very ragged looking, as if he'd been mouthed over by a large cat or something. I was hoping he was a baby, but according to the image search I did for immature rose ...
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Ok, now that another male RBG has come to my feeder looking smartly dressed with a nice fresh pink looking beak, I've come to the conclusion (possibly erroneously) that this is a younger bird about to molt or just finished molting.. maybe a son, even..
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