Driven south due to a poor conifer crop up north, evening grosbeaks, redpolls and bohemian waxwings will be looking for food ...

It's been a long time since we've enjoyed large numbers of evening grosbeaks. Every year, I hope for a "grosbeak winter" and perhaps this will be one. Scattered reports of sightings began in December, ...

I always get this question — or a variation of it — from at least a few folks about this time of year: “A strikingly beautiful bird is coming to my feeder. It has a big red spot on its white breast, ...

As was predicted earlier this year, evening grosbeaks are starting to appear in our area. They have a superficial resemblance to American goldfinches, but they are much larger. This one is either an ...

Linda Croskey guessed it’s been about 30 years since she has seen the rare winter migrant, the evening grosbeak, show up at her birdfeeder at her West Deer home. Then, after last week’s snowstorm, ...

I was at the computer writing about birds when something a little different caught my eye outside at the seed feeder. There was a flash of color and a slightly larger bird than the usual flock of ...

With a large white beak, a dazzling crescent of yellow on the dark forehead and a large patch of white feathers on the wings, there is nothing in our area that looks quite like an evening grosbeak.

Editor’s note: This is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take an interest ...

During some years in the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of evening grosbeaks visited Pennsylvania, often in flocks of 50 or more.

Arriving back from the warm and sunny west coast after a month of birding, touring, visiting and feasting at wonderful San Francisco restaurants, Danny and I settled into unseasonably warm weather in ...

Jeff Carl called me last Monday to let me know that a half-dozen evening grosbeaks, five females and one male, descended upon his Pike Township feeders for a feast. He said that these are the first he ...