On Wednesday morning, eight EVENING GROSBEAKS (1 adult male) visited our yard in northeast Ithaca. Besides black oil sunflower seeds in our hopper feeder, they also ate maple seeds and maybe buds or seeds of a couple other tree species. Mostly, they just perched quietly in the sunshine. This is the first time we’ve ever seen Evening Grosbeaks in our yard in our 17+ years in Ithaca.
Also this morning (9:05 AM), Wesley Hochachka saw at least two female Evening Grosbeaks in Sapsucker Woods in an ash tree east of the building by the north-side feeder station, but they flew off somewhere within about a minute. eBird shows at least a couple dozen Evening Grosbeak records around Tompkins County since November 2018, including more than a few this week so far, including a county high count of 44 (13+ adult males) by Jay McGowan along Irish Settlement Road a couple of days ago. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
