I had so many wonderful comments last post about our bird feeder. I loved the interaction.  The general consensus about our “mystery bird” seems to be that it most definitely is a grosbeak because of its beak.  That was people’s first clue on what family it was from.  Then our ”twitchers” determined that it was a black-headed grosbeak.  Now to be honest, when I look in my Birds of Arizona book, the bird doesn’t look quite like the one we have, but when I googled it, the black headed grosbeak images are the very same ones as my bird. Thanks so much everyone. It is so exciting to learn the names of the birds here in our backyard!  If you want to be inspired, read the comments left on that post. …

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