I have an evening grosbeak at my office feeder sporting an unusual plumage on 
its head, a salt-and-pepper mix of gray and white.  I have never seen this 
before.  Any and all input is appreciated.  I skimmed through the BNA entry but 
it had only a couple lines on aberrant plumage, and I am a bit distracted today 
as it is.
 
If it is some form of leucism (or whatever the more accurate technical term may 
be) I am starting to get paranoid, because this would make the third bird I 
have seen in four months that has had aberrant white plumage, and the second at 
my feeder this week (a junco).  Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 
three times is enemy action.
 
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/Paoniabirds/P1110128lc.jpg
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/Paoniabirds/P1110114lc.jpg
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/Paoniabirds/P1110112lc.jpg
 

The junco:  http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk296/Paoniabirds/P1110092lc.jpg
 
 
Dennis Garrison
Paonia, Delta County 


                                          

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