From the depths of winter to the dog days of summer, these native bushes, trees, and vines can help support a variety of ...

More colorful visitors include the brilliant Steller’s jays, the pine grosbeaks and less often, gray-crowned rosy-finches, which invariably arrive in large flocks. On a snowy weekend recently ...

(March 6, 2025) A rare visitor from the north – an adult male Pine Grosbeak – was discovered voraciously chowing down on crab apples in a tree in Sconset Feb. 25. It was seen intermittently through ...

Definitely not a stray scarlet tanager or pine grosbeak, either. No, this bird, as I sneaked closer, had a dark head, dark wings and tail and even a dark beak — whereas cardinal beaks ...

Like the $2 CAD and $20 CAD bills, the face carries the same vignette of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The reverse carries two pine grosbeaks. Pine grosbeaks belong to the finch family and are very ...

With the arrival of pine grosbeaks and/or bohemian waxwings that food may not last. This winter a large flock of cedar waxwings finally arrived about a month ago and have cleaned out a number of ...

All Waxwings have small, black bills. I’ve previously identified the gorgeous black, white and yellow Evening Grosbeaks and dusky pink and gray Pine Grosbeak — each with their large seed ...

crossbills or pine grosbeaks if they wander off course from normal food pathways. A variety of seed sizes and types should be offered and cut back or added as needs dictate. Black oil sunflower ...