I’ve been meaning to post these photos taken the first week in May. Around this time each year, we get a couple of glimpses of these fantastic birds on our feeders.

(They stay around a week before going to their summer vacation home further north, although one past year they had the brood of young grosbeaks somewhere in our backyard trees.)

A few days ago I posted some pictures of the male Rose-breasted Grosbeak.  We knew the female would show up and indeed she has.  Except for the beak, she doesn’t look like the male Grosbeak at all.

While I’m at it, here’s today’s view of ‘our’ Goldfinches—