Happy Monday!
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Albatrossity
This will be the last installment of the account of a trip to the Palouse in 2015; next week will probably be images from the quickening spring migration period. In May we are headed to Costa Rica (I’ve never been there, but I hear they have some nice birds), and I am greatly looking forward to it. So there will be those in the future as well. But for now, springtime birds from eastern WA are the menu today.
There was an image of the Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) in a previous installment, but I think these guys are pretty enough for a re-run. Interestingly, I have quite a few images of this species, but very few pictures (and no good ones) of our local congeneric, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak. I do have this amusing low-res video from my bird-banding days, where a grosbeak would seemingly rather chomp on the bander’s hand than fly away free… Bloodthirsty, they are! Click here for larger image.
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