New Bird

Look who showed up for breakfast.

We searched for identification
and came up with a black headed grosbeak.










He was just flitting around
on the ground,
searching for something.
Seed? Bugs?

Flitting indeed!
Flitted and fluttered so quickly
T came up with this:










Can you see him?
More clearly, here are the markings:













Audubon wrote:

"The following account of this Grosbeak affords another proof of the ardent zeal of my excellent friend THOMAS NUTTALL, who, thought more especially engaged with botany on his recent journey to the Columbia, has not neglected opportunities of noting many interesting facts relative to birds.

'On the central table-land of the Rocky Mountains, and on the upper branches of the Colorado of the west, we first heard the powerful song of this most delightful Finch. From thence, in the thick groves of all the streams on our western course to the borders of the Columbia, and throughout the dense forests of that river nearly to the sea, we were frequently cheered amidst the wildest desolation by the inimitable voice of this melodious bird.

Jealous of all intrusion on his lonely and wild haunts, it was seldom that we had the opportunity of witnessing this almost fairy musician, which gave a charm to the saddest gloom, and made the very woods as it were re-echo to his untiring song.'"