Tweeters:

I visited Skagit WMA last Thursday and saw a funny
Sparrow/Grosbeak bird in the blackberry tangle near
the entrance swamp. The ID of the bird really botherd
me. I finally had a chance to check Thayers (Sibley
is back in CAlif) : it was a young female Rose
-breasted Grosbeak. I heard the Grosbeak chip but the
bird was streaked all across the breast and buffy on
both the breast and back --definitely no Black-headed
Grosbeak. Bright white wing dots (like an antshrike
for any neotrop birders)

We've been seeing RBGB's somewhere in N. Cal every
year . I guess you're seeing them now too.


I visit my grandkids up here several times a year and
enjoy the birding.

Dick


Richard Carlson
Full-time Birder, Biker and Rotarian
Part-time Economist
Tucson, AZ & Lake Tahoe, CA
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