June 10, male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[denisknopp]

Hi Birders,
Sorry for the delay in posting this sighting I've be in the field away from the internet. I saw the RBGR in a shrub on my way back from Keefer going to the Nahatlach river valley UTM 10 U 605838 5539971. The RBGR was concealed but I new it was something different, I tried pishing and out it came in full view. The bird was a male with some BHGR back in its line as the rose red V on its brest was fringed in orange. This was a lifer for me, my first in years.
Life is full of surprises.
Denis

[denisknopp]

The sighting was on July 10 2009 not June 10.
Denis

[murraybrown]

Great sighting Denis. There was a male RBGR seen at Sumallo Grove about 3 or 4 weeks ago by Mike McGrenere. It makes me wonder? Not that far away as the Grosbeak flies!
I saw one at a feeder in rural Langley in the dead of winter a few years ago, and they were as common as dirt up in the Peace this summer.
But a pretty rare bird this far west.

Murray