Evening Grosbeak Irruption Year

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[safeinOhio]

1. We had a few pairs

at our feeder this year.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Oh, I would love to see them again

We had them once in Raleigh (over the last 28 years), and once when I lived in New Hampshire - they came in a big swarm each time.

Thanks for the post - I will start looking at bird movement maps to see the possibility here in the western NC mountains!



Bird watching is one of those perfect antidotes to trumpfrustration!

[Harker]

3. There was a flock of eight here (Worcester, NY)

for a couple of weeks, but they stopped coming by toward the end of the first week of this month.

They're a treat.

[Firestorm49]

4. My in-laws saw a flock in far northern WI - Ashland County.

[cyclonefence]

5. Thirty-five years ago, in Altoona PA

We had a swarm of hundreds of grosbeaks. They filled the trees. Ours were rosy-breasted, which are prettier (imo), but a swarm of these big guys is a wondrous thing.

Thanks for posting this. Due to illness and depression, I'd stopped filling my feeders since summer. I got right out there!