Pine grosbeak: There is a widespread good to excellent ... trees and well-stocked feeders with black oil sunflower seeds. White-winged crossbill: With very poor cone crops reported from ...

Note the white wing bar and patches on black wing ... first-fall males is very similar to plumage of female black-headed grosbeak. Call: a sharp eek, squeakier than the black-headed’s.

Adults have a long forked black tail, black wings with white wing bars and a large bill. The legs and feet of pine grosbeaks are dark brown or black. The pine grosbeak has an extremely wide ...

The northern finches include the purple finch, pine siskin, evening grosbeak, pine grosbeak, white-winged crossbill, red crossbill and common redpoll. Although some of these species nest in Maine ...

Common redpolls, the rarer hoary redpolls, white-winged and red crossbills, and pine grosbeaks have been reported from many locations. In Wilmington, a flock of up to 30 pine grosbeaks has been ...

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart ... black wings with bold white wing bars, white tips to tertials, and white patch at the base of primaries. Center to lower belly ...

On April 27, a male rose-breasted grosbeak appeared on a feeder just outside my office window. About the size of a cardinal, but more barrel chested, it was in fresh breeding plumage – black head and ...