It’s an Evening Grosbeak!
While visiting our son in Montana, I spent some time sitting like a statue watching the bustling activity at their bird feeder.
There were two of these beauties peeking at me from behind the leaves of a lilac bush. Eventually they decided that I had no feathers OR wings, so I wasn’t a true threat and they popped into view.
Pretty!
A WINDOW INTO THE WOODS 
So that camera is just a permanent implant in your hand? (And we’re so glad it is!)
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Hehehe! I took it specifically to Montana because my son told me about all of the different birds that come to their feeders. (If there’s not one in my hand, there’s always one within reach. I might be a little OCD.)
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What a beautiful bird! Totally strange here.
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Not anything I’d see in the Ohio River Valley!
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Not a bird you are ever likely to see down here in Johannesburg!
And what a great shot, too!
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I don’t see them in the midwest, a different version, but not with these markings. p.s.Thanks!
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We rarely see them here but when we do it’s a real treat.
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So they go visiting you all the way out there! Wonderful!
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Only a few and only sometimes. I guess that’s why they seem so special.
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🙂
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