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I had not seen any birds of this species for years. We used to have them on the homestead every winter when I was a child. (Many moons ago 😛 )
They appeared one very foggy, rainy morning shortly before Christmas and stayed for much of the day; but have not returned since. They are a very beautifully colored bird. But as I recall ......... also very gregarious, tend to take over the feeders, and are not particularly tolerant of competing species.
There had been a rather large flock coming into the feeders at my sister-in-law's, for almost a month. But they have not been in for several day. She is only about five miles distance from me. I rather suspect that these are an irruptive population whose local feeding grounds may have been decimated by the drought and/or wildfires.
As a kid, my favorite CSX power were always the SD50s. It didn't matter if they were YN2, YN3 or Conrail blue, the big EMDs just looked mean and sounded powerful. On a particularly nice September evening in 2008, I was treated to a pair of YN2 SD50s slogging out of the Thornapple River valley with Toledo-Grand Rapids freight Q335 in tow.
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I took this at8.30pm in the garden. Tonight is the Solstice so still light. It would have been better had it not been overcast!! These flowers are iridescent in the evening light.
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A beautiful male Evening Grosbeak seen yesterday at the Sax-Zim Bog birding area in northern Minnesota. He is cracking a sunflower seed from a nearby bird feeder. St. Louis County, MN 02/11/23
It's been several years since the Grosbeaks last visited my yard. This year I have Black-headed and Evening Grosbeaks at my feeders.
It seems harder than ever to lose myself in my photography. I force myself, but my heart isn't in it.
A small mountain lake shines like a gem in the mysterious atmosphere of the evening. On the left, part of the Mont Blanc massif Italian side.
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