re: I saw a Red Breasted Grosbeak on my birdfeeder today

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you don't have the house clean a

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This.

I cleaned my grandparents for years before they passed. Well worth it, granny loved to watch them

Beautiful. Very rare sighting indeed.

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The blue footed booby

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I think I actually came across one of these in Cameron Parish one time.

Driving along the highway that hugs the beach near Johnson's Bayou, I saw a large bird on the shoulder that I could tell was not well.

I pulled over and backed up to it, and got out to inspect. It was unlike any bird I'd ever seen. Large body, big webbed feet. When I approached it, it opened its wide beak to try to fend me off, but it couldn't move too much. I was amazed by this bird, and tried my best to capture its image in my mind so I could identify it when I got home to look it up.

I remember it had pale blue feet, and a pale blue beak, with brown feathers. It could have been pale blue because it wasn't healthy. I don't know.

I rolled over and crushed it with my vehicle to put it out of its misery, but I wish I would have taken it to a bird rehabilitator in hindsight.

When I identified the bird at home, I was amazed to think it was a blue footed booby.

That bird has no business in Louisiana, but it could very well have been blown badly off course over the Gulf and somehow landed desperately on the Louisiana shore, where I found it in distress.

If only we had iPhones back then, I would have documented it.

The spring birds are here in force. Today on the feeders at the office we spotted Gold Finches, Red House Finch, Indigo Buntings, Tufted Titmouse, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Orioles, Very Fat Doves, Redhead Woodpecker, Red Breasted Woodpecker, plethora of squirrels, and a Red Fox.

Those little suckers can stain a patio quick

that aint the eating type no

That's nothing. I keep an ivory-billed woodpecker as a pet.

Rose breasted Grosbeaks usually show up when the pecan trees are putting on catkins. Fill your feeders with black oil sunflower seeds and you may persuade 6-12 birds to hang around for a week or two. Just my experience over time. Beautiful bird, good find.

I wouldn't mind become a bird watcher when I become older and can't move around too good.

Good bird watching near Dauphin Island, AL.

man, I haven't seen a cedar waxwing since I was a kid....used to see some massive flocks of them at certain times of the year.