Subject: Re: Evening Grosbeak
Date: Jun 5 10:09:18 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Tweets,
>
>I saw a pair of Evening Grosbeaks in my backyard yesterday (in suburban
>Seattle), and after dragging my wife and niece out to see such a beautiful
>pair of birds I got to reading up on them (not that there's much in the
>National Geographic field guide). Is it typical to find them in the lowlands
>in the late spring?
>--
>Michael Patrick

Evening Grosbeaks every year wander around the lowlands, probably in search
of new buds of broadleaf trees such as maples; they also visit city trees
such as sycamores. The species is very much oriented toward angiosperms
rather than gymnosperms. At that time, they may descend on bird feeders in
prodigious numbers, instantaneously raising the revenue of various
sunflower-seed companies. So a good life strategy would be to combine
stock options in bird-seed companies and a rigorous Evening Grosbeak
conservation plan.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416