Evening Grosbeak, Coccothraushes vespertinus – Hartwick
Pines State Park; Grayling, Michigan:
It was March, 1980 when I saw my first evening grosbeaks. A flock of about a dozen birds had
landed in a field next to my parent’s home in North Alabama. A rare visitors to North Alabama
in winter and the early spring, the grosbeaks are usually driven south by
severe weather. I have only
had two other sighting in North Alabama since then, and both have been at my
bird feeders in January and February.
Evening Grosbeaks breed in coniferous and mixed forest
across Canada, western mountains of the United States and Mexico. I found this evening grosbeak at
Hartwick Pines State Park just north of Grayling, Michigan. It was
one of a dozen or more bird visiting the nature centers feeders. Hartwick Pines is perhaps the best
place to reliably see evening grosbeaks, and in my opinion, the best place to photograph them!
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