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The memory of my first sighting of an Evening Grosbeak is as vivid and sharp as if it happened yesterday. Truth is, it was sometime in the early 1950s during one of the early eruptions of this exotic bird into the southeast.
The male, about the size of a Robin, is startlingly beautiful; a bird of vivid yellow set off by jet black and white. The heavy bill is chalky white during the winter and turns a remarkable shade of apple-green as April veers toward May.
I hope Evening Grosbeaks being reported to me at area feeders stay around long enough for this amazing bill color to emerge before they fly to the far north to nest. Jack Alcock of Marshall is an experi'enced and widely traveled bird watcher not given to expressing
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